Chennai, May 14 -- The 2019 Pollachi sexual assault case verdict on Tuesday triggered a war of wars between Tamil Nadu chief minister MK Stalin and Leader of Opposition Edappadi Palaniswami (EPS) over women's safety during their respective rules.

The crime between 2016 and 2018 which came to light a year later occurred during the previous AIADMK led by EPS. One of the convicts belonged to the party and he was expelled following their arrest. A Nagarajan alias as "Bar" Nagaraj, a close aide of AIADMK's Pollachi student-wing secretary K Arulanantham was arrested in 2019 and later in 2021, the CBI arrested Arulanantham too.

Lauding the verdict, Stalin took a veiled swipe at EPS and said that justice has been served for the atrocities commi...