CPM demands HC-monitored probe into Perambalur case

In a statement, CPM state secretary K Balakrishnan said that even as the Pollachi sexual abuse-cum-blackmail case probe is yet to reach a conclusion, a similarly shocking incident in Perambalur district has come to light involving a leader of the ruling AIADMK party.

He alleged that the new scandal involves innocent women being lured with the promise of job interviews to lodges where they were sexually abused and also forced to grant sexual favours to an AIADMK leader. He said that there were reports of an advocate filing complaint in this regard.

He said that this incident only shows that there was no security for women or girl child under the AIADMK rule. “Since an AIADMK MLA was involved in the case, a High Court-monitored probe should be ordered into the incident to take legal action and arrest all those involved in the racket,” he said.

It may be noted that DMK president MK Stalin on Friday demanded that the state government probe the sexual assault complaint and arrest the culprits. He alleged that the police are trying to do a cover-up operation on the case lodged against the sexual predators. He said that there would be a change of government in the state after May 23, and the new administration would investigate and take serious action against those officials who watered down the cases against the culprits in the Pollachi and Perambalur sexual abuse scandals.

According to the complaint lodged by the advocate, a group of men would befriend housewives and college girls, lure them to lodges on the pretext of job interviews and then sexually assault them. The complaint also said the women victims were video graphed and were blackmailed for further sexual favours. The Perambalur All Women Police Station has registered a case in the matter against unknown persons.