In a shocking incident, an 18-year-old migrant girl was sexually assaulted in a moving auto in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai. The police officials have launched a manhunt to nab three suspects in connection with the case. The cops are scanning CCTV footage installed in the area and its vicinity.
According to reports, the girl was waiting for a bus outside the Kilambakkam bus terminus. A auto driver approached her and offered her a ride which she refused. He dragged her inside the auto and soon after two men also joined the auto driver and they sexually assaulted her at knifepoint.
The girl screamed for help to which a few passersby heard and immediately informed the police. The accused dumped the girl on the road and fled from the scene. The girl received help from a man who was also a cop. Later, the police rescued the girl. It is learned that the girl was a migrant and working in Salem.
Slamming the state government, Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai said that crime against women has become a ‘horrifying reality’ of the state.
Annamalai posted on X, “An 18-year-old girl was abducted in an auto rickshaw outside the Kalaignar Centenary Bus Terminus in Kilambakkam and was sexually assaulted. She was saved by a good samaritan who dialled the police control room after hearing the girl’s cry for help. Sexual assault across TN has become a horrifying reality, with drugs becoming an easily accessible commodity. However, the number of arrests made in NDPS cases in TN in the last three years, between 2022 and 2024, was only 1122. In 2021 (in one year), the total number of arrests in NDPS cases was 9632. The sale of Ganja & Methamphetamine is on the rise in TN but the arrests are on the decline. How? ”
