A minor girl accompanied by her physically challenged father was abducted and gang raped allegedly by two teenagers near Partamaha in Odisha’s Kandhamal district on Sunday.
The victim has not been able to identify her assailants. According to the complaint filed by the victim and her father at the Daringbadi police station, the incident took place when they were returning to their village after applying for a tribal caste certificate at the Daringbadi tehsil office.
They had to walk to their remote village a few kilometres down a jungle path from Partamaha. Her father had fallen behind. Finding her alone, the accused abducted her, she said in her statement.
Tusharkant Mohapatra, inspector in-charge at the Daringbadi Police Station, said the investigation was underway.