Bhubaneshwar, Sept. 16 -- A 19-year-old female college student was allegedly gang-raped near a beach at a tourist destination in Odisha's Puri district after the assailants tied her male companion to stave off possible resistance from him.
The incident occurred at Baliharichandi beach under Brahmagiri police station of Puri district on Saturday. However the rape survivor, deeply traumatized after undergoing the harrowing ordeal, volunteered to lodge a complaint yesterday.
Police swung into action to arrest three of the culprits who had recorded video, clicked pictures while the victim flanked by her male companion was spending some leisure time at the pristine beach.
Three of the accused persons booked under section 70 of BNS (gangrape) ...