Police arrested 6 accused…
On Friday, Police said, In Odisha’s Cuttack district, six people, in which one is a minor allegedly raped a 19-year-old college student several times and videographing the act.
Six people were arrested in this case.
The woman filed a complaint with the Badambadi police station in Cuttack, alleging that the accused, including her boyfriend, brutally raped her.
The college student claimed that she had gone to a cafe during the Dussehra festival to celebrate her birthday.
Her boyfriend, with help from the cafe owner, captured the incident on his phone there.
They blackmailed the woman by showing her those intimate videos and raped her several times, Cuttack DCP Jagmohan Meena said.
He said, based on the complaint which was filed on November 4, the boyfriend of the woman, the cafe owner, a boy and three others were arrested during the next two days.
They have been booked under various sections of the BNS, IT Act and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Act.
The police also recovered the videos from their mobile phones which were sent to the State Forensic Science Laboratory in Bhubaneswar for examination, the officer added.
Meena said in a press conference that the accused persons have sexually assaulted the victim twice.
The DCP appealed to each and every woman, who is being blackmailed by any one, to come forward and file a complaint without any fear and hesitation.
Law Minister Prithiviraj Harichandan in Bhubaneswar said that the government will ensure that the culprits are strictly punished.
Edited By: Tanvi Walia
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