A stone cold perpetrator

An influential industrialist now finds himself at the centre of a widening investigation under the POCSO Act into the allegations of paedophilia.

While he was under investigation from last year, a fresh probe, ordered by the court, led the police to recover additional digital evidence and identify multiple victims.

This report examines what has been labelled the ‘Epstein case of Tamil Nadu’, only to discover that while the scale of operations was nowhere near that of the American offender, a subterranean network of sexual abusers and their enablers did operate for years