Six years after nine men were accused of sexually assaulting and blackmailing several women in Tamil Nadu's Pollachi, a court has pronounced them guilty. Sessions court Judge R Nandhini Devi found the men guilty of gangrape and repeated rape. The judge ordered life sentences for all nine convicts - Sabarirajan alias Rishwanth, 32, Thirunavukarasu, 34, T Vasantha Kumar, 30, M Sathish, 33, R Mani alias Manivannan, P Babu, 33, Haron Paul, 32, Arulanantham, 39, and Arun Kumar, 33. They have been at the Salem Central Prison since their arrest in 2019 in the sensational case that gripped the nation.