TNN | May 30, 2012, 03.57AM IST
SAMBALPUR: Four persons were arrested on Tuesday for their alleged involvement in the gang rape of a Plus II student during Sital Sasthi celebrations near Burla. Police said three other accused, including the victim's boyfriend, are absconding.
Police said the girl, a resident of Sonepur district, was having an affair with one Rahul Panigrahi. Though Rahul worked in the students' mess of VSSUT, Burla, he represented himself as an engineering student. He had even promised to marry the girl.
The girl's family, however, were opposed to the affair and sent her to their relative's home in Sambalpur. Taking benefit of Sital Sasthi, the girl had phoned Rahul on Friday and the two agreed to go to watch the celebrations at Gohiratikira near Burla.
Police said Rahul took her to the house of one Rahul Pradhan at Gohiratikira. The girl's boyfriend and three other persons raped her at the house on Friday and Saturday nights. On Sunday, Rahul had dropped the girl in Sambalpur after requesting her not to disclose the matter to anyone.
The victim revealed everything to her father, who rushed to Sambalpur and lodged a complaint with police. "We have registered a case of gang rape. We have also arrested four persons, including the house owner and his wife Sunita, for abetting the crime," said ASP (Sambalpur) Dilip Kumar Deo.
Deo added that police had launched a manhunt for the victim's boyfriend and two others identified as Kuldip Siddar and Hari Meher.
In a similar crime, a girl was gang raped on the outskirts of Deogarh town during Sital Sasthi festival in 2009.Link: Lover prime accused in girl's gang rape
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