Greater Chennai Police arrested R Veeramani, the 85-year-old chairman of GEM Group and founder of GEM Granites, along with two others in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of a minor girl at a house in Teynampet. The arrests were made on Saturday by the Anti-Trafficking Cell of the Central Crime Branch (CCB), nearly 11 months after the case was registered. Also arrested were Shanthi (60) and her husband Mahendra Simhan (63), who allegedly facilitated the offence. Police said the suspects have been booked under sections 7, 8, 15(1), and 21(1) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act and section 67 of the Information Technology Act, and have been remanded in judicial custody. According to senior police sources, the victim had not yet been identified, and the case was registered after verifying the veracity of a video clip of the alleged assault.