Chatra: In a gruesome crime reminiscent of the Nirbhaya case in Delhi, three men gang-raped a 50-year-old widow and inserted a steel tumbler in her private parts at Kobna village in Huntergunj block of Chatra district late on Thursday night, police said on Friday. The survivor is fighting for her life at a government hospital in neighbouring Bihar where the tumbler was removed after surgery.
Two of the accused, identified as Bablu Paswan and Bittu Paswan, were arrested and while the third was still on the run till the time of filing the report.
SP Rishav Kumar Jha and senior police officers visited the spot after getting information about the crime from the villagers.
Jha said, "The name of the third accused and other details of the trio cannot be divulged at the moment as an investigation is on.”
In her police complaint, the survivor said the accused grabbed her around 10 pm when she went out of her home to attend to nature’s call. The culprits then took turns to rape her, inserted the steel tumbler in her private parts and threatened her with dire consequences if she reported the matter to the police before fleeing from the spot.
When she did not return, her sister-in-law went out to look for her and found her lying in a pool of blood. On Friday morning, she was taken to the Hunterganj community health centre. The doctors there termed her condition as critical and referred her to the government medical college in Magadh of Gaya district in neighbouring Bihar.