Mar 2, 2012: Lecturer, friends held for raping minor for 3 years

TNN | Mar 2, 2012, 05.52AM IST

TUTICORIN: A college lecturer and three of his friends were arrested by the police for raping a minor girl for over three years. The lecturer had intimidated the girl with her nude photographs and video, which were taken after sedating her.

The arrested were identified as R Arun of Rajiv Nagar in Kovilpatti, his friends Sugumaran and Ayyappan, also from Kovilpatti and Ramkumarfrom Karimedu in Madurai. Police have seized the mobile phones, laptops and memory cards from the four that contained photographs and videos of the girl.

Police said Arun, who was working with a private college in Kovilpatti was also conducting tuition classes for school students. The girl, then studying in 10th standard, joined the tuition classes in 2009. Arun duped the girl and raped her promising to marry her. Since then, Arun has sexually abused her several times. Whenever the girl resisted he had administered her sedatives and raped her.

After a period of time, Arun's friends Sugumaran, Ayyappan and Ramkumar also raped her after administering her sedatives. When the girl threatened to complain about the harassment, Arun showed her the video clippings shot in his mobile phone and blackmailed her that he would upload it in the internet if she went ahead to reveal their acts.

However, one of her relatives learnt about the abuse suffered by the girl and approached Arun demanding the video clippings of the girl shot by him. When he refused to part with them and again threatened of uploading it in the internet, the relative convinced the girl to lodge a police complaint.

Police said that there were nude video clippings and photographs of several women in Arun's laptop and they are probing whether the women were also abused by him.

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Oct 21, 2011: Woman tried to muzzle rape victim, booked

TNN | Oct 21, 2011, 06.12AM IST

NEW DELHI: A trial court has ordered initiation of criminal proceedings against a woman - who allegedly coaxed a 75-year-old rape victim against identifying her alleged rapist- for intimidating witnesses . The court's action came on the complaint by a court's staff.

The staffer heard the woman , identified as Renu, along with the victim's daughter, a witness in the case, try to coax the victim to turn hostile during the proceedings. Additional sessions judge Kamini Lau asked the victim's daughter to explain by November 1 as to why she too should not be prosecuted. The incident came to light when the court's record keeper, Pramod Kumar, heard the two influence the victim.

"Do not utter a word and identify the accused, no matter what the judge tells you," the woman was quoted as saying by Kumar. The court deferred the recording of victim's testimony, saying she was under pressure. While sending the victim to an Old Age Home till November 1, the court ordered that none of her family members would approach or meet her without the court's permission during her stay in Nari Niketan.

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