Overview

• Two Tiruvannamalai constables, Suresh Raj and Sunder, were arrested, suspended, and remanded to Vellore Central Prison over the alleged rape of a young woman during a night vehicle check near Endal village.
• The victim, a visitor from Andhra Pradesh, reached a government hospital with local help, prompting an FIR by the All Women Police Station and inspections by senior officers at the scene.
• In Andhra Pradesh’s Chittoor district, police booked three men under POCSO, SC/ST Atrocities, and BNS provisions for the alleged gangrape of a Dalit minor; two suspects, M. Mahesh and P. Kishore, are in custody and a search continues for J. Hemanth Prasad.
• Investigators say the Chittoor suspects posed as forest staff, threatened the couple, robbed the girl’s gold chain, and assaulted her in a thicket, with the minor’s statement recorded at a One-Stop Centre after police counselled a reluctant family.
• AIADMK, BJP, and other leaders condemned the Tiruvannamalai case, and AIADMK issued a fresh call for independent monitoring of police behavior toward women, citing a party tally of 19 police-linked sexual offences this year.