Coimbatore: One of the accused who had assaulted the Pollachi assault victim’s brother, was yesterday handed over to the CB-CID for interrogation for four days. He was the fifth person to be arrested in the case.
The accused, Manivannan had allegedly beaten up the 19-year-old girl’s brother for lodging a police complaint. After the arrest of the four main accused he went absconding for the last one month. However, on 25 March, he surrendered himself before Chief Judicial Magistrate S Nagarajan.
Manivannan was subsequently remanded to judicial custody till 8 April and on Thursday, his bail plea was rejected by the court. The CB-CID moved a petition seeking 11 days custody of him for interrogation, but the magistrate allowed four days.