Police seize third video allegedly showing ‘Gem Granites’ Veeramani abusing minor

CHENNAI The Greater Chennai Police have seized one more video purportedly showing Gem Granites owner R. Veeramani sexually abusing a minor girl, taking the total number of such videos recovered in the case to three, police sources said on Monday. The deleted video, believed to have been recorded a few years ago, was retrieved by cyber forensic experts from a storage device seized from the premises of Shanthi, a close associate of Veeramani.

“The video shows the octogenarian businessman in a compromising position with a minor. We suspect that Shanthi recorded the visuals and subsequently deleted them,” a police officer said. Investigators are in the process of identifying the victim in the video.

“This is the third video seized in the case and there could be more. With this fresh evidence and a witness in another case of child abuse coming forward as a complainant, the total number of victims has risen to 13,” the officer said.