Additional investigation is underway, say cops (Representational)
Cuttack:
Six folks, together with a minor, had been arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old school scholar a number of occasions and videographing the act in Odisha’s Cuttack district, police mentioned on Friday.
The girl lodged a criticism with the Badambadi police station in Cuttack, alleging that the accused folks, together with her boyfriend, raped her.
The school scholar claimed that she had gone to a restaurant inside Purighat Police Station limits in Cuttack through the Dussehra pageant to have fun her birthday, and her boyfriend, allegedly with assist of the cafe proprietor, captured in his telephone a few of their intimate moments there.
They blackmailed the girl by exhibiting her these intimate movies and raped her a number of occasions, Cuttack DCP Jagmohan Meena informed reporters.
Based mostly on the criticism lodged on November 4, the boyfriend of the girl, the cafe proprietor, a boy and three others had been arrested through the subsequent two days, he mentioned.
They’ve been booked underneath numerous sections of the BNS, IT Act and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The police additionally recovered the movies from their cellphones which had been despatched to the State Forensic Science Laboratory in Bhubaneswar for examination, the officer added.
Meena mentioned in a press convention thatthe accused individuals have sexually assaulted the sufferer twice.
The DCP appealed to any lady, who’s being blackmailed, to come back ahead and lodge a criticism with none concern and hesitation.
Regulation Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan in Bhubaneswar mentioned that the federal government will make sure that the culprits are punished.
“The federal government will take very robust motion in Cutatck gang rape case. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on numerous events directed the police to take stringent motion towards folks concerned in crimes towards ladies,” the minister mentioned.
Efforts are on to declare Odisha a criminal offense free state for ladies by 2036, the minister mentioned.
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