Bhubaneswar, April 4 -- Bolangir: Born mute, Pinki (Name Changed) from Belapada block in the district could not utter a word, let alone narrate her ordeal, when three miscreants ravaged her modesty. Her feeble utterances in front of the police failed to make any impact on them just like it faded in the dark of that fateful night.

As it turned out, Pinki's family who hails from a nondescript village in Bolangir went to work in a brick kiln at Katnapalli under Telangana's Karinagar district like many others from Odisha who migrate to other states in search of livelihood.

Sources said, on the night of March 29, 2021, when she was out of her house on nature's call, three earth mover operators got hold of her and raped her by using criminal ...