Five Manipur students gang rape Tripura woman; 2 held
Silchar, Sept. 19 -- Five students from Manipur allegedly gang-raped a 21-year-old Tripura woman, all of whom studied in the same private university in Guwahati, police said on Thursday, adding two of the accused have been detained while others are being questioned.
All five accused are 17-years-old and they live at a rented house in Guwahati, police said.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (East Guwahati), Amitav Basumatary, told HT that the alleged incident took place on last Saturday when a party had been organised at a house.
It was not immediately clear who owned the house.
"The girl lodged a first information report (FIR) at Guwahati's Pani Khaity outpost on Tuesday and we picked up the five accused, all minors. Two of them have been apprehended and the other three are being questioned," the DCP said.
Basumatary said the complainant told police that she was under the influence of alcohol and when she woke up the next morning, she realised that she had been raped, he added.
An official from the Pani Khaity outpost said that a case under Section 70 (1) (gang rape) and 3 (5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and provisions of the Juvenile Justice Act was registered. The accused were detained from their house.
"We launched an investigation that led to the identification of the five accused," police said....
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