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Former Chennai Police Commissioner Arun among 7 cops named accused in Veeramani POCSO case

Chennai, Nov 13 (UNI) Senior IPS officer and former Greater Chennai City Police Commission A.Arun got the taste of his own medicine, having come under the long arm of law after he along with six others were cited as accused in the first FIR filed against granite baron R.Veeramani who was facing multiple POCSO cases for sexually assaulting several juvenile girls.
Arun and six others, including former Anti-Vice Squad Assistant Commissioner M.A.Yasmin, were inamed as accused by the SIT in the FIR last evening. Their names were included in the FIR hours after the Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the high-profile case, filed the charge sheet before the Special POCSO Court Judge S.Padma in Chennai.
They have been booked under Sec 21 of the POCSO Act (failing to report or record a case of child sexual abuse) and Sections 199 (disobey legal directions), 235 (false evidence) and 238 (causing the disappearance of evidence) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The names and charges have been added to the first FIR registered against Veeramani and others. They were also accused of failing to conduct a proper inquiry into the case, which led to the filing of a closure report before the Special Court, which refused to accept it, leading to reopening of the case and subsequent arrests.
Meanwhile, SIT in its chargesheet has named Veeramani and two others. Police said after the SIT was formed on September 29 to investigate the first case against Veeramani, seven fresh cases were slapped on the tainted bizman on the complaint of victims/their mother with respect to nine victims. Among those seven cases, the charge sheet was filed in the case registered on September 27, 2026, based on the complaint from mother of the minor victim, a 14-year-old belonging to the Scheduled caste, who was sexually abused by Veeramani.
It was filed against Veeramani and his drivers Parthiban and Babu, who despite having knowledge of this offence, fetched the victim child and dropped in Veeramani's place where the victim child was sexually abused. They were charged u/s.366, 506(2) IPC, 5(l)(m)(i) r/w 6 and 17 of POCSO Act r/w 3(1)w(I), 3(2)(v) of SC/ST Act. The 720 page exhaustive final report citing 40 witnesses, was submitted within 46 days from the date of registration of the case.
It was initially said Veeramani's inappropriate acts first came to light in October 2025, when a child rights activist lodged a complaint and handed over a pen drive containing footage of Veeramani sexually assaulting a minor. Later, it was revealed that the allegations against the Gem Granites owner had reached senior Chennai police officials almost a year earlier when Congress leader and MP Ranjan Kumar had lodged a complaint against him to the then Additional Commissioner of Police (South), N Kannan, who had forwarded it to the City Police Chief Arun. Ranjan had also shared video clips with the Anti-Vice Squad police and also met Yasmin and informed about it.
However, no case was registered upon receipt of the complaint at that time and later said the probe began only in October 2025.
So far nine people have been arrested in the case which has opened the pandora's box as more skeletons had started tumbling from the cupboard after the SIT started digging deep.
Veeramani was arrested after the POCSO court rejected the closure report and ordered the police to probe the matter based on the FIR registered in October 2025. Cases were registered against Veeramani and others under Secs 7,8,15(1), and 21(1) of the POCSO Act, Sections 354(A), 354(C), 201, and 120(B) of IPC and Sections 66(E), and 67(B) of the IT Act.
The probe had police unravelled several startling revelations including huge money trail running to crores of rupees, besides transfer of more than 20 kg of gold between Veeramani and suspected mediator(s) in November 2024 when the first complaint was filed, and in early this year (2026) when the closure report was filed. Since the probe also unearthed the involvement of top police officials and also some affluent and influential persons, the Tamil Nadu Government constituted an all-women Special Investigation Team (SIT) which
was probing the case in detail.
It was also pertinent to note during the hearing on a plea seeking to transfer the probe to the CBI, the petitioner Varaahi filed an additional affidavit claiming that immediately prior to the earlier Action drop Report against Veeramani, he had transacted a huge value of money, around Rs. 147 crore. He also alleged that then Chennai City Police Commission Arun had utilised some of these illegal gratifications
for purchasing gold valued at approximately Rs 24 crore. He submitted that the circumstances surrounding the transfer of funds, the identities of the persons who arranged and facilitated the transactions, the source of the funds utilised for gold purchase, the mode of payment and the ultimate beneficial ownership of the assets acquired, warranted a thorough and independent investigation.
The court perused the status report filed by the SIT and observed that the police had already taken note of the fact and has been conducting investigations. Varaahi also contended that high-ranking officials were involved in the case and they attempted to shield the accused in the case and evade legal action.
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