Additional investigation is underway, say cops (Representational)
Cuttack:
Six individuals, together with a minor, had been arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old school pupil a number of instances and videographing the act in Odisha’s Cuttack district, police mentioned on Friday.
The lady lodged a grievance with the Badambadi police station in Cuttack, alleging that the accused individuals, together with her boyfriend, raped her.
The faculty pupil claimed that she had gone to a restaurant inside Purighat Police Station limits in Cuttack throughout the Dussehra competition to rejoice 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 lady by exhibiting her these intimate movies and raped her a number of instances, Cuttack DCP Jagmohan Meena instructed reporters.
Based mostly on the grievance lodged on November 4, the boyfriend of the lady, the cafe proprietor, a boy and three others had been arrested throughout the subsequent two days, he mentioned.
They’ve been booked below varied sections of the BNS, IT Act and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The police additionally recovered the movies from their cell phones 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 grievance with none concern and hesitation.
Legislation Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan in Bhubaneswar mentioned that the federal government will be certain that the culprits are punished.
“The federal government will take very robust motion in Cutatck gang rape case. Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on varied events directed the police to take stringent motion towards individuals concerned in crimes towards girls,” the minister mentioned.
Efforts are on to declare Odisha a criminal offense free state for girls by 2036, the minister mentioned.
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