DARJEELING: A woman dumped by her husband was allegedly raped near Pound Road in Darjeeling on Wednesday night. A police patrol team luckily spotted the girl surrounded by a group of four youths and rescued her.
While police arrested two of the youths, the other two managed to flee. The arrested duo, identified as Sangay Bhutia and Shankar Sharma, will be produced in court on Friday.
On Wednesday night, a police team patrolling the town area noticed four youths and a woman near Pound Road. When they approached the group, police found that the woman, in her early 30s, was in an unstable condition. Though the youths tried to escape, police managed to arrest two of them.
Primary investigation revealed that the woman, a homemaker, was a resident of Melling tea estate under Jorebungalow police station. She had come to Darjeeling on Wednesday morning with her husband, a casual worker. The woman claimed that her husband who is an alcoholic deserted her and left for the tea estate. Since the victim had no money, she could not return to her home and hence started looking for accommodation. It was then that youths approached her and reportedly raped her on the pretext of helping her.
LT Bhutia, inspector in charge of Darjeeling sadar police station, said, "The woman was raped by some youths that we have arrested. We have sent the woman for medical examination to the Darjeeling district hospital."
Police are trying to nab the other culprits.Link: Woman raped in Darjeeling, two held
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