Suryanelli rape: Absconding key convict held

February 15, 2013 13:11

The key accused in the 1996 Suryanelli gang-rape case, SS Dharmarajan has been taken into custody. He has been absconding after he was granted bail in 2005. Dharmarajan had told a leading daily in Kerala that Rajya Sabha Chairman P J Kurien was involved in the case.

The protests in the state has placed the Congress Party in a moral dilemma. Protests were staged outside the Kerala Assembly demanding Kurien''s removal. The police had to fire teargas shells to quell the protests.

In an interview given Mathrubhumi News from an unknown location in Mysore, Dharmarajan revealed that on January 19, Kurien travelled to the Kumili guest house in his Ambassador car at about 6.30 pm from Vandiperiyar.

The Suryanelli rape case concerns a 16-year-old girl who was sexually harassed , assaulted and raped continuously for 40 days by 42 men in 1996.

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