CHENNAI: Granite baron, Veeramani, 84, was on Saturday arrested on prices of sexually abusing a minor lady at an acquaintance’s home in Teynampet. A pair, who have been his enterprise associates, have been additionally arrested for facilitating the sexual abuse. The arrests have been made by the anti-vice squad (AVS) of the central crime department (CCB) police.The case was initially registered on Oct 6, 2025 after a baby welfare volunteer handed over a pen drive containing a video that purportedly confirmed an aged man sexually abusing a minor lady. After preliminary inquiry, it was referred to the anti-vice squad.Nonetheless, after inquiry, the squad sought closure of the case and filed a ‘additional motion dropped’ report back to the particular court docket for Pocso Act circumstances in Chennai. It submitted that the incident, as per the pen drive, had occurred in 2019 and that there was DCR recording of the info. Additionally, the id in addition to the whereabouts of the lady, presumed to be a minor, was not identified.The 2 facilitators — Mahendra Simha, 64, and his spouse, Shanthi, 60 – additionally stated no such incident occurred at their residence. Each the couple and Veeramani stated the person within the video was not him and that that they had by no means seen such a woman. Citing comparable eyewitness statements, the anti-vice squad filed the closure report.Nonetheless, rejecting the closure request on Aug 19, the particular choose stated: “ Last report not accepted. Additional investigation is ordered. Additional investigation shall be accomplished or progress shall be reported in 4 weeks.”On Saturday, police issued a press release saying that they had later established the id of the person within the video as industrialist Veeramani, founding father of Gems Granites. In addition they stated that Veeramani had rented a home in Teynampet and entrusted its administration to his enterprise associates Mahendra Simha and his spouse Shanthi. In accordance with police, a minor lady labored on the home and Veeramani steadily visited the premises.The Anti-Vice Squad arrested Veeramani, Mahendra Simha and Shanthi on Saturday and received them remanded in judicial custody.Chennai metropolis commissioner of police A Amalraj instructed his subordinates to analyze whether or not the minor had been subjected to sexual abuse by a couple of individual.
