The police in Tamil Nadu’s Coimbatore district arrested three men on Tuesday for allegedly abducting and gangraping a 20-year-old college student from Vellakinar near Thudiyalur, The Hindu reported.

The arrests were made after a 36-hour search operation .

The men, identified as Guna alias Thavasi, Karupasamy alias Satheesh and Kaleeswaran alias Karthik, were intercepted on the outskirts of Mettupalayam on Monday night and shot in the legs after they allegedly tried to escape, Coimbatore City Police Commissioner A Saravana Sundar told The Indian Express .

A head constable was also reportedly injured.

The accused persons were taken to Coimbatore Medical College Hospital for treatment.

The assault took place on Sunday night, when the student and her male friend were in a park

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