Chennai: A 30-year-old man has been arrested for raping a 19-year-old woman with a mental health condition at Marina Beach. The arrested suspect endeared himself with the woman through a social media platform and lured her near a theatre in Egmore. He then took her to the the Marina Beach swimming pool and raped her, police said.
The woman from West Mambalam, who suffers from a mild mental health condition, left her home on May 13. Her parents searched for her and brought her back home on May 18 after learning she was wandering around Mambalam Railway Station.
On May 19, the woman fell ill. She was taken to Kasturba Gandhi Govt Hospital in Triplicane for a medical examination, during which it was revealed she had been sexually assaulted. Doctors immediately informed the Mambalam all women police station.
Investigation revealed the woman had a habit of leaving her home and subsequently returning after a couple of days. She was active on Instagram and maintained contact with male acquaintances.
On May 13, she left her home without informing anyone. While she was standing near the theatre in Egmore, a man named Imran, 30, a resident of Chintadripet, who was passing by on a two-wheeler and whom she knew through the social media platform, offered her a ride. Imran took the woman to Marina Beach, where the two spent private time together near the swimming pool.
Imran dropped the woman off at Fort Railway Station early on May 14. She went to several places and even out of station with people she had befriended online, and returned to the Marina, where her father’s friend spotted her, and informed her family.
Mambalam All Women Police registered a case. They arrested Imran, a resident of Chintadripet, and are interrogating him. He was produced before a magistrate court and remanded in judicial custody.
Selvaraj Arunachalam, widely known as Crime Selvaraj, is a vetera...
Read MoreSelvaraj Arunachalam, widely known as Crime Selvaraj, is a veteran journalist with over 31 years of experience in crime reporting across leading Tamil and English newspapers. He has covered historic events, including the deaths of former Tamil Nadu Chief Ministers Jayalalithaa and M. Karunanidhi, the IPL betting scam, and the Kanchi Seer Sankararaman murder case. A familiar face in the digital space, he has given more than 500 interviews across 30 YouTube channels, with millions of views on social media. He has also featured in international documentaries on Netflix and Bloomberg, speaking on high-profile cases such as idol smuggler Subhash Kapoor and conman Sukesh Chandrasekar. Beyond journalism, he has acted in three films including the Tamil movie DNA, trained over 200 budding journalists, directed short films, and authored the English crime-poetry collection Chilled Love. His contributions have earned him the TOI Scribe Award and the Humanitarian Award from former Governor Dr. Tamilisai Soundararajan.
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