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CHENNAI: A Mahila Court in Chennai on Wednesday convicted A. Gnanasekaran, the sole accused in the case,OF SEXUALLY ASSAULTING AN ANNA UNIVERSITY STUDENT ON THE INSTITUTE'S CAMPUS ON

DECEMBER 23. Mahila Court Judge Rajalakshmi said she will pronounce the verdict in the case on June 2. The government counsel later told reporters that the prosecution filed 11 charges

against Gnanasekaran and proved all of them using documentary and forensic evidence. "Today, he was pronounced guilty by the court. The details of the sentence will be given on June

2," she said. The court had framed charges against Gnanasekaran under sections 329, 126(2), 87, 127(2), 75(2) read with 75(i), (ii), (iii), 76, 64(1), 351(3), 238(b) of BNS and BNSS,

Section 66 of the IT Act and Section 4 of the Tamil Nadu Prevention of Women Harassment Act. Gnanasekaran, a biryani vendor who is an accused in multiple other cases of thefts and other

offences, pleaded not guilty. The charges in the Anna University case pertain to rape, sexual harassment, wrongful confinement, abduction of a woman and criminal trespass. Tamil Nadu Chief

Minister M K Stalin said the police department has ensured justice in just five months for the victim in the Anna University student sexual assault case. Assuring once again justice and

safety-security for women, Stalin said the trial was conducted expeditiously and, "our police department has secured justice in just five months." In a social media post, he

thanked the police officials who investigated the case, prosecutors and the court. "I continuously tell the police department that there should be no incidents of crime, and in case

such things happen, no perpetrator of crimes should escape; probe and trial should be expeditious and punishment must be secured for the offenders," the chief minister said, adding ,

the hopes of opposition parties to carry on "defamatory, cheap politics," has been shattered.