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The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken suo motu cognizance of a media report that a 20-year-old woman college student was allegedly subjected to gang rape by around 10 men on the Gopalpur sea beach of Ganjam District in Odisha on June 15

Reportedly, the victim had gone to the beach along with a male friend to celebrate a festival. The perpetrators after overpowering her friend sexually assaulted her, according to an NHRC statement

"The Commission has observed that the contents of the media report, if true, raise a serious issue of violation of human rights. Therefore, it has i...