The police in Odisha on Wednesday said that a 15-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped for 22 days in Cuttack city, the Hindustan Times r...
The police in Odisha on Wednesday said that a 15-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped for 22 days in Cuttack city, the Hindustan Times reported. The city’s Deputy Commissioner of Police Prateek Singh said one of the accused was arrested and search for the other one is under way.
The two accused also recorded the incident and threatened the girl. “We have launched a manhunt for the other accused,” Singh told the newspaper. “A team has been constituted to nab the second accused.”
The girl, a Class 9 student from Jagatsinghpur district, had come to stay with her elder sister and brother-in-law in Cuttack about three weeks ago, after a fight with her parents, the police said. However, her brother-in-law did not want to her stay there for long and asked her to return home.
While she was waiting to board a bus at the OMP Square in Cuttack on September 20, a man, identified as Santosh Behera, approached her. He promised to drop her at the Badambadi bus stand, but instead took her to a farmhouse of his friend, Raka, near Gatiroutpatna village.
“The youth along with his associate Raka sexually abused the girl at the farm for 22 days,” an unidentified police official of Chauliaganj police station told the Hindustan Times. “They...
