Chennai: Youth's FB post on gangrape bid takes cops on wild goose hunt

Chennai: A tipsy youth's Face Book post claiming to have foiled a gang rape bid on Friday night, sent police on a wild goose chase on Saturday. The youth had four bottles of beer and watched Rajnikanth's action-packed Kabali before indulging in the chivalrous act.

When police traced him and asked him to show the spot where the incident occurred, he took them round the place for about three hours, but could not identify the location. However, there is a wound around his neck and the police do not have a clue on what caused it.

The youth Vasanth Paul of Chromepet, said to be a fashion model, had posted a comment saying he saw a gang rape attempt last night at Alandur and was engaged in a fist fight with one of the guys. According to his account, he was strangled by another guy with a thick jute rope. He said he was able to create enough time and space for the girl to get out by drawing the attention of an auto-driver, who came to their rescue. The auto driver beat the guys who ran away. The girl had gone with the auto driver, he had said.

The FB post went viral with 1,800 persons commenting on it and 13,000 sharing the post. Following the post, police traced the youth and asked him about the incident.

Paul said he watched Rajni starrer Kabali on Friday morning and had four bottles of beer with friends at T Nagar at night.  When he was returning home in a two-wheeler, he turned towards Alandur after descending the Kathipara flyover to avoid police action for drunken driving.

According to him, he saw the gang rape attempt at Alandur, but when police took him around to show the place, he was not able to spot the place after moving around the area for about three hours. The police are clueless since they neither know the spot nor the victim. The cause of the youth's wound is also not known.