COIMBATORE: Two young men allegedly raped a mentally ill woman in Coimbatore on Saturday evening. Police have arrested the alleged rapists — identified as 27-year-old M Arjunan, a scrap merchant of Bharathi Road in Ram Nagar in Coimbatore, and 22-year-old A Pandian, a rag picker hailing from Aruppukkottai in central Tamil Nadu. They were picked up after a passerby alerted the police.Preliminary investigations revealed that Arjunan had spotted the mentally challenged woman, aged around 30 years, near his shop on Saturday evening. After noticing that she was of unstable mind, Arjunan convinced her to ride pillion on his motorcycle promising to drop her at the Gandhipuram bus stand. Instead, he took the woman to a bushy area near the Eastern side of the Coimbatore railway station and adjacent to the bustling Brook Bond Road at around 7.45 pm and began assaulting her sexually. A rag picker Pandian who saw this seized the opportunity and joined Arjunan.“A youth V Ranjith Kumar (21) of CMC Colony who is working as a house keeper in a private studio and his friend heard the wails of the woman when they were walking along the Brook Bond Road. After noticing the two men sexually overpowering her, Kumar called the police control room and alerted us,” a police officer said. The police then rescued the woman and arrested the men. “We got the victim medically examined at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital on Sunday and have now lodged her at the Government Home in Sanganur,” the officer added.The woman was unable to give details about her address. She kept repeating that she was from Ramanathapuram. It was not clear if the Ramanathapuram she was referring to was the location in Coimbatore or the southern district.“The All Women Police (Central) have registered a case of rape against Arjunan and Pandian,” he said.
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