Coimbatore: The rural police have booked cases against six men for damaging the property of a city club and harassing its women visitors in Thondamuthur.
Police said that the accused Guna alias Gunasekaran from Sundapalayam, who resides near Cosmo Village Club in CTC Garden in Thondamuthur, had harassed women visitors to the club by making unwanted calls in their mobile phone. He is also allegedly involved in petty offences and used to steal coconuts and other valuables from the club premises.
Women visitors to the club took his help to buy some goods for them on Saturday. Then Guna took note of their mobile numbers and began to harass them by making unwanted calls.
When the women raised the issue with the club staff, they summoned him and gave a sound thrashing the next day. A furious Guna vowed revenge and returned some time later with five other goons and attacked the cars parked in the club. They also damaged the tables, television and CCTVs fixed in the premises, police said.
Following a complaint by Cosmo Village Club staff, the police registered a case against Gunasekaran and five others under IPC sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting with deadly weapons), 452 (house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint), 294 (b) (uttering obscenities), 427 (causing damage to property), 506(i) (criminal intimidation) and section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prohibition of Women Harassment Act. A search is on to nab the accused persons who are on the run.
