Chennai, May 15 -- The war of words between Tamil Nadu chief minister M K Stalin and leader of opposition and AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami (EPS) over crimes in the state continued on Wednesday, a day after the 2019 Pollachi sexual assault case verdict where nine convicts were imprisoned for life.

Stalin said that similar justice would be served in the 2017 Kodanad heist-cum-murder case.

"Before the 2019 Parliamentary polls, I had said that perpetrators of the Pollachi crime, however influential they may be, would be punished. That has happened," he told reporters in Ooty. The sexual assaults in Pollachi were "an indication of the evil rule under the then CM EPS", Stalin said.

The CM said Palaniswami recently visited ...