A few families living at Brindhavan Nagar near Coimbatore International Airport had come to the aid of the 20-year-old college girl, who sought refuge in one of the houses while fleeing from the three men who allegedly gang-raped her on the intervening night of November 2 and 3 on a deserted area nearby.

According to witnesses, who did not want to be identified, the girl scaled the compound wall of a house around 4 a.m. on November 3 and knocked on the front door. However, the residents were asleep and did not hear the knocks. As the calling bell did not work, she pressed the switch of a motor in a desperate move to seek support.

Seeing no response, the girl climbed the open stair to reach the terrace, from where she stepped into the verandah of the very adjacent house on the first flo

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