14-Yr-Old Dalit Girl Gang-Raped In Odisha, Three Held: Police

Jagatsinghpur (Odisha), Apr 29

• A 14-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly raped by three persons, including a minor, in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district, police said today.
• The incident took place under the jurisdiction of the Tirtol police station on Friday, the police said.
• On Friday evening, the victim was on her way to a coaching centre on a bicycle, when the trio allegedly forcibly dragged her into a bamboo forest, gagged her and took turns to rape her, Sub-Divisional Police Officer (SDPO) of Tirtol Shiba Prasad Mallick said.
• The accused had also threatened to kill the girl if she talked about the incident to anybody, he added.
• After returning home, the girl narrated her ordeal to her mother, who lodged a police complaint yesterday.
• Two of the accused were arrested and the minor accused was apprehended today, the SDPO said.