Police suspect that the attack was carried out on a “quotation” given by the man’s wife (L), who allegedly tracked his mobile phone location and passed on the details to the gang.
Five accused have been arrested in connection with the September 22 incident.
A six-member gang entered their room posing as police personnel, according to police. He was later abandoned outside a hospital near Tiruppur, police said. She was allegedly sexually assaulted, police said.
The accused allegedly tied up the two, gagged them with cloth and forcibly took them away in a car. The man was allegedly assaulted during the journey to Tiruppur and suffered multiple fractures to his arms and legs. The woman was allegedly taken away in another car by two members of the gang after the man was abandoned. The three were produced before a court and remanded in judicial custody.
THRISSUR: A woman who had checked into a lodge in Thrissur with a male friend was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by a group of men who posed as police officers, officials said on Thursday. A fifth accused was arrested from Palani in Tamil Nadu on Wednesday and is scheduled to be produced before a court on Thursday, police said.