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Chennai/Coimbatore: The Tamil Nadu government on Wednesday ordered transfer of the Pollachi sexual assault case and a related assault case from the Crime Branch CID to the Central Bureau of Investigation. Later CB-CID IGP Sridhar met the reporters and said that an investigation team has been formed and SP Nisha will lead the teams. “We will hand over the documents to CBI when they will start their investigation,” he said. Governor Banwarilal Purohit accorded consent to the transfer of case to CBI.An order to this effect was issued by the home department based on the recommendation of DGP T K Rajendran. While Senthil, Babu and Vasanthakumar were arrested the same day and remanded in judicial custody, another accused, Nagaraj, was arrested a day later..