An 84-year-old prominent businessman from Tamil Nadu who has headed various industry panels, including head of Natural Stones and Products Panel of the ministry of commerce, was arrested along with two of his aides by the Central Crime Branch’s (CCB) anti-vice squad for allegedly sexually assaulting a minor girl, police said on Sunday.
The Central Crime Branch of Chennai City Police launched a probe and investigations established that the man seen in the video was R Veeramani, a prominent granite businessman. “The man claimed that the pen drive contained footage of prominent businessman 84 year old R Veeramani committing a sexual offence against a young girl in the bed room of his associate, Shanthi in Teynampet in Chennai. A case was registered on October 7, 2025 under sections of BNS and the Pocso Act, police said.
“It emerged that numerous young girls were brought to the house where sexual crimes were committed and video evidence of one such crime involving a young girl was seized,” police said. Upon viewing the video stored in the pen drive, the police confirmed it showed an elderly man engaging in a sexual crime against a young girl,” a press release from CCB said on Sunday. R Veeramani, Shanthi and Mahendra Simhan were arrested late on Saturday and remanded to judicial custody, the police release said .
An investigation is going on, they added.
