Probe launched into alleged gang-rape

Thiruvananthapuram: A 24-year-old woman residing at Puthanthoppu under Kadinamkulam police station limits outside the city raised allegations that she was gang-raped by her husband’s friends following which the police launched a probe.
The alleged incident happened on Thursday night around 8pm.
According to the woman, her husband took her and their one-year-old child to the beach at Puthukurichi near Puthanthoppu on Thursday evening. From there, they went to the residence of her husband’s friend nearby. There, his friends gave them liquor and got both of them inebriated and allegedly raped her.
Kadinamkulam sub-inspector R Ratheesh Kumar said that the woman ran out of the house and a group of people who were passing by in a car took her in and dropped her at her house. They also alerted the police promptly. “We have shifted the woman to taluk hospital at Chirayinkeezhu. We will register a case after medical examination. We have already launched a probe,” said the sub-inspector. tnn