Chennai, May 13 -- In a landmark ruling, all the nine accused were awarded life imprisonment till death in the sensational Pollachi sexual assault case by a Mahila Court in Coimbatore on Tuesday.

Judge R. Nandhini Devi pronounced the verdict in camera at the Special Court set up for the trial of the 2019 case.

After convicting all the accused earlier in the day, the Judge pronounced the sentence past noon, awarding life sentence until their death to all of them.

The accused were N. Sabarirajan alias Rishwanth (32), K. Thirunavukkarasu (34) , M.Sathish (33), T. Vasanthakumar (30), R. Mani alias Manivannan (32) P. Babu (33), T. Haronimus Paul (32), K.Arulanantham (39) and M.Arunkumar (33).

The CBI which probed the case had arraigned t...