NOB- Chennai news: Gnanasekaran, the accused in the sexual assault of a student inside Anna University campus in December 2024, was on 02.06.2025 sentenced to life imprisonment by the Mahila Court. The court held that Gnanasekaran must undergo at least 30 years of imprisonment without remission as part of sentencing. The court also imposed a fine of Rs. 90,000/- on the accused. A “life sentence without remission” means that a convicted person is sentenced to life imprisonment but will not be eligible for any form of reduced sentence or early release, such as parole or remission. On May 28^th 2025, the court found Gnanasekaran guilty of 11 charges including rape and reserved the sentencing to June 2^nd 2025. After the announcement of guilty verdict 28.05.2025, Gnanasekaran’s counsel requested for lenient sentencing citing aged mother and young daughter to which the prosecution objected strongly. On 02.06.2025, Mahila Court judge M Rajakshmi sentenced the accused for maximum punishment for the charges against him. The Chargesheet in the case was filed on February 24^th 2025 by the Special Investigation Team (SIT), which took over investigations from the Greater Chennai Police, who arrested Gnanasekaran initially On December 23, 2024, the victim, a second year engineering student was with her male friend when Gnanasekaran confronted them. Gnanasekaran first threatened the girl and her boyfriend that he would share the video of them being intimate to the university authorities and get them dismissed. He then made the boy leave and took the girl to a secluded area. He told the girl that her boyfriend was being investigated by the staff of the university. Exploiting her vulnerable state, he threatened to share the video with the boyfriend to the college authorities and her father if she failed to do what he asked. But she refused. Gnanasekaran then allegedly and sexually assaulted her, which he also recorded on his mobile phone. He then took her phone number and threatened to send the video to her father if she failed to meet him whenever he asked, assuming that it was the perfect tool to blackmail her into into keeping quiet about the incident. But as it turned out, he clearly underestimated her strength and resilience in confronting the situation at hand, instead of being bogged down by the fear of stigma and scandal. With the help of her family and college authorities, the student filed a complaint with the Kotturpuram All Women Police Station the very next day, which led to police acting swiftly and securing Gnanasekaran, at a roadside biryani vendor with a long rap sheet against his name.