Anna University sexual assault case: Plea in Madras High Court insists on inquiring Annamalai to find out who is that ‘sir’

A writ petition has been filed in the Madras High Court seeking a direction to the Direcor General of Police (DGP) and the Inspector of Kotturpuram police station in Chennai to conduct an inquiry regarding Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) former State president K. Annamalai’s claim that he was in possession of certain records related to the Anna University sexual assault case.

The writ petition (criminal) has been numbered and expected to be listed before Justice P. Velmurugan this week. Advoate M.L. Ravi, also the president of Desiya Makkal Sakthi Katchi, had filed the petition. The petitioner had sought a direction to the DGP to instruct the Inspector to register a First Information Report (FIR) on the basis of a complaint lodged by the writ petitioner on May 31, 2025.

The petitioner stated that a woman engineering student had been subjected to sexual abuse at the Anna University campus in Chennai by biriyani seller D. Gnanasekar on December 23, 2024. According to the victim, the aggressor had intervened when she was close with her boyfriend and threatened that he would disclose the incident to the top brass of the college if she does not budge to his sexual desire.

The victim had also claimed that the aggressor had spoken on phone to someone by referring to the person on the other end as ‘sir’ and used the phone call to sexually assault her. Most Opposition political parties in the State wanted to know ‘Who was that sir?’ However, the police, continued to maintain that Gnanasekar had operated alone and that he had only pretended to talk to someone while keeping his phone on flight mode.

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On the other hand, Mr. Annamalai, made a persistent claim all through that he was in possession of Gnanasekar’s call records and that there was more to the crime than what meets the eye. Yet, the police did not choose to inquire him regarding the reported materials in his possession, despite a specific representation made by the writ peitioner in February 2025 and ended up filing a charge sheet only against Gnanasekar.

After a speedy trial, the Mahila Court in Chennai convicted Gnanasekar on May 28, 2025 and pronounced the sentence on June 2, 2025. Even after the conviction, Mr. Annamalai continued to maintain that he was in possession of records to prove the link of others too. Therefore, the petitioner had lodged a complaint with the police on May 31, 2025 to inquire Mr. Annamalai in connection with the case. He wanted this complaint to be registered, and an inquiry initiated to find out if there was really any ‘sir’ involved in the crime.