Chennai Police Commissioner A Arun said the FIR in the Anna University sexual assault case was written exactly as per the victim's statement, with no alterations made. He addressed allegations of an FIR leak,

Taking suo motu cognisance of the sexual assault of a 19-year-old Anna University student in Chennai, the National Commission for Women condemned the attack. The commission also highlighted police negligence and directed action for stricter punishment and protection for the victim.

Protests erupted in Chennai after an incident of sexual assault emerged from Anna University, where a second-year engineering student was reportedly assaulted while she was with a male friend on the campus on Monday. The Greater Chennai police swiftly arrested a 37-year-old man, identified as Gnanasekaran, who sells biryani on the pavement nearby.

Chennai: A girl student of the reputable College of Engineering, Guindy (CEG), in Tamil Nadu’s premier Anna University in Chennai, was sexually assaulted by a man on the campus on Monday night. The accused, a biryani seller, has been arrested.

Tamil Nadu BJP leader Annamalai condemned the act of publicising the details of the identity of the victim through the FIR.

The accused entered the campus and sexually assaulted the second-year student behind a building after thrashing a male student, who was accompanying her.