CHENNAI: A court granted police three days custody to interrogate the athlete coach P Nagarajan, arrested under the Pocso Act for sexually harassing a college student in their custody on Friday.
The investigating officers will have to produce the 59-year-old before court on Monday, ordered judge T H Mohammad Farook.
Police sources said more complainants from across the state approached the investigating officers.
Police plan to interrogate him based on the fresh complaints.
The coach who worked as an assistant commissioner in the GST department in Chennai retired from service six months ago.
Police arrested Nagarajan on May 28 on charges of sexually exploiting a 19-year-old college student when she had trained with him.
The girl statedshewastrainedby him between 2013 and 2020.
After the training session, the girl alleged, the coach would send the other girls away and ask her to stay back.
He would pretend to give her physiotherapy and touch her inappropriately.
When the girl protested, Nagarajan stopped training her and threatened her.
As the coach would spoil her chances to get government posting and to attend competitions, she remained silent.
On Friday, the case against martial arts trainer Kebi Raj wastransferredtotheCB-CID, as the investigation needs to evidence from other districts.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)