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The vacant and deserted areas on a mud roadworthy connecting Brindhavan Nagar adjacent the Coimbatore International Airport and SIHS Colony person agelong been the hang-outs of anti-social elements astatine night.
The spot saw antithetic question of constabulary vehicles and searches by constabulary unit connected Sunday night, aft a 20-year-old assemblage pupil was allegedly gang-raped by 3 men.
The pupil and her antheral person were targeted by the assailants astir 11 p.m., erstwhile they were successful a car connected a vacant land, hardly 100 metres from the compound partition of the airport’s runway.
Residents said anti-social elements inhabit the vacant areas astatine nighttime for drinking, substance abuse, and different activities, owed to which determination are little takers for the mud roadworthy aft 9 p.m. Incidents of robbery and battle had besides been reported from the area.
“There is nary patrolling of the roadworthy by the constabulary astatine night, owed to which anti-social elements bent retired astatine these places. The radical are acrophobic to walk done the road. There are nary lights, arsenic it is simply a way done vacant onshore that the radical usage to easiness question betwixt Avinashi Road and SIHS Colony,” a store proprietor connected Brindhavan Nagar Road said.
A nonmigratory of the locality, who sought anonymity, claimed that immoderate constabulary unit connected patrol showed leniency erstwhile they recovered persons consuming intoxicant successful the unfastened abstraction oregon indulging successful different activities.
BJP cadre, led by Coimbatore South MLA Vanathi Srinivasan, staged a protestation successful beforehand of the South Taluk bureau connected Monday evening, condemning the Tamil Nadu authorities and the constabulary implicit the incident, and accusing them of not ensuring the information of women.
Holding capsicum spray and torches, the cadre demanded the apprehension of those progressive successful the alleged pack rape of the assemblage student.
Illegal barroom ransacked
Members of the Naam Tamilar Katchi (NTK) ransacked an illegally tally bar, located astir 500 metres from the country of the crime.
The enactment cadre staged a protestation successful beforehand of the gathering from wherever a barroom functioned until 2 years ago. They alleged that the closed barroom continued to merchantability liquor. The constabulary reached the spot and took Saravanan of Pudukottai, who was allegedly selling liquor, into custody.
