After a daylong hunt, the Coimbatore city police on Tuesday morning nabbed the three men accused in the Coimbatore gang-rape case. A young second-year management student was abducted and raped by three men near the Coimbatore international airport on Sunday night. The incident came to light after her boyfriend, who was also assaulted by the three men, called the police for help.

The three men, identified as Guna, Karuppasamy and Karthik alias Kaleeswaran, who are repeat offenders, were out on bail in a theft case. The three were intercepted on the outskirts of Mettupalayam on Monday night by one of the seven special teams formed by the police to crack the gang-rape case. “They were shot in the legs as they attempted to escape,” said Saravana Sundar, Coimbatore City Police Commissioner. Th

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