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India Today
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80-year-old woman sexually assaulted, robbed during evening walk in Tamil Nadu
An 80-year-old woman was allegedly gang raped and robbed while on her routine evening walk near Panrutti in Cuddalore district, Tamil woman, who lives with her son, is known to go for walks in the morning and evening. On Monday evening, while she was out walking, a group of men reportedly intercepted and abducted her. According to police sources, the men took her to a secluded location, gagged her, allegedly raped her and robbed her of gold jewellery weighing approximately 8 residents found the woman unconscious and rushed her to the District Government Hospital, where she is currently undergoing treatment. The Panrutti Police have begun an investigation into the a similar incident, on June 12, a 60-year-old differently abled Dalit woman was allegedly raped and robbed by a person with a known criminal record in Karnataka's Uttara Kannada district. The accused, identified as Fairoz Yasin Yaragatti, aged 23, was later shot in the leg by police during an encounter after he allegedly attacked officers while attempting to incident occurred when the woman, a resident of Dandeli, was walking to a relative's house. She was abducted and assaulted, following which she lodged a complaint at the Dandeli Town Police Station. During the course of the investigation, the police showed her photographs of nearly 100 suspects, and she identified Yaragatti as the Yaragatti, a resident of Bailpar in Dandeli, is a history-sheeter with a criminal background with recorded offences related to illegal liquor trade, ganja peddling, and abuse and assault of police officers. He was reportedly working as a driver and sand transporter. IN THIS STORY#Tamil Nadu
India Today
29-05-2025
- India Today
Teen girl murdered, cousin injured at Tamil Nadu home, neighbours catch accused
A 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death and her cousin critically injured inside a house in Tamil Nadu's Ranipet district, on victim, Janani, was at her home in Pulivalam village with her cousin Lakshya and grandmother while her father, Jegathkumar, a weaver, had gone to work. Lakshya was visiting them for the summer to the police, when the grandmother went upstairs to check the water tank, an unknown man entered the house and locked the door from inside. Janani began screaming for help, but the intruder allegedly stabbed her multiple times, killing her on the spot. When Lakshya tried to intervene, she too was attacked and seriously Alerted by their screams, neighbours broke open the door, overpowered the assailant, and informed the accused has been identified as 20-year-old Subramani. He was injured during the scuffle with locals and is currently under treatment. Janani's body was sent to the District Government Hospital for postmortem, while Lakshya remains in critical reason for the attack remains unclearThe Palayam Police have registered a case and further investigation is another incident, on February 23, a Class 10 student from Krishnapuram in Tamil Nadu was hospitalised with multiple gashes on her throat after being attacked by a 17-year-old boy she had met on boy, a Class 12 student from the same area, had allegedly called her out of her house late at night, assaulted her with a knife, and fled with her 12-gram gold Watch IN THIS STORY#Tamil Nadu
India Today
03-05-2025
- India Today
17 Tamil Nadu fishermen injured in Sri Lankan pirate attack, equipment looted
More than 30 fishermen from Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam district were allegedly attacked by a group of Sri Lankan pirates on Friday while fishing off the Coromandel coast. Out of them, 17 sustained injuries in the attack. The fishermen, who had ventured out to sea in a fibre boat, said they were southeast of Kodiyakkarai when six men in a speedboat approached them and began assaulting them with sharp attackers allegedly looted GPS equipment and fishing nets before targeting several other boats in the vicinity. The stolen items are estimated to be worth around Rs 10 lakh. Seventeen injured fishermen were admitted to the District Government Hospital after returning to shock, the fishermen claimed the attack occurred well within Indian territorial waters.'Sri Lankan pirates attacked us, and several fishermen are now hospitalised. We urge both the state and central governments to intervene. We are currently on strike, and if such attacks continue, we will launch an indefinite protest,' said Gajendran, a fisherman from a similar incident in December last year, three Tamil Nadu fishermen sustained slash injuries after being attacked and robbed by a group of Sri Lankan Watch IN THIS STORY#Tamil Nadu
