Chennai, May 14 -- A Coimbatore court on Tuesday convicted and sentenced nine men to life imprisonment until death in the Pollachi sexual assault case, which had sent shockwaves across Tamil Nadu after incidents of gang rape, filming sexual crimes and extorting multiple survivors came to light in 2019. Coimbatore women's court judge R Nandhini Devi, who pronounced the quantum of punishment, ordered an overall compensation of Rs.85 lakh to the eight women victims, who testified in the case from Pollachi, about 44km from Coimbatore. The nine men were accused of criminal conspiracy, sexual harassment, rape, gang rape, and extortion, in the series of incidents that took place between 2016 and 2018, and came to light a year later. The case came ...