Chennai, May 28 -- A Mahila Court in Chennai on Wednesday convicted 37-year-old Gnanasekaran in the sexual assault case at the Stte-run iconic Anna University.
Mahila Court Judge M Rajalakshmi found the lone accused guilty on all 11 charges including rape, sexual harassment, wrongful confinement, and criminal intimidation, and convicted him.
The Judge said she would pronounce the quantum of sentence on June 2.
The incident took place in the campus on December 23, 2024, when the victim, a second year
engineering student, was talking to her boy friend at a secluded place, when Gnanasekaran,
who was later found to be a sympathiser of the ruling DMK, confronted them, and sexually
assaulted the student after threateing her boyfriend.
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