Five held for gangrape of woman in Amravati

Five people have been arrested for allegedly raping a 25yearold woman in Maharashtras Amravati district a police official said on Thursday reported the PTIThe victim has told police the crime occurred after she left her house on Tuesday following a quarrel with her parents the official saidAs per the complainant two youths gave her a lift on their twowheeler They took her to a secluded place plied her with liquor and raped her Three more persons were also involved in the gangrape he said according to the PTIAfter the victim approached police on Wednesday morning a case was registered and one person was initially apprehended with the help of CCTV footageHis interrogation led to the arrest of four others within two hours Further probe is underway the official informedThree arrested two detained over gang rape of girl in BhubaneswarIn an another incident in Odisha two men and a teenage girl were arrested in connection with the gangrape of another girl in Bhubaneswar police said on Thursday as per the PTITwo other persons aged 21 and 23 years have also been detained and they are being interrogated a police officer said adding that the arrested men are both aged 19 yearsThe girl was allegedly gangraped in a hotel in the Odisha capital on October 16A case was registered with Nayapalli police station on Wednesday on the basis of a complaint lodged by the survivor Bhubaneswar DCP Pinak Mishra said reported the PTIThe arrested girl was a common friend of both the victim and the accused and had allegedly introduced the survivor to the accused he saidThe accused had allegedly spiked the victims soft drink with some intoxicant and gangraped her he saidThe accused had also videotaped the incident and tried to extort the victim and her mother the officer saidWe will seize the device used in videographing the incident and will take further action accordingly he addedAn officer of Nayapalli police station said the accused girl had introduced the victim to one of the accused who had become close to herOn October 16 the accused had allegedly taken the victim to a park where he spiked her soft drink with some intoxicant and then took her to a hotel where he and three other accused took turns to rape her the officer saidThe accused had demanded Rs 12000 from the victim and Rs 50000 from her mother threatening to upload the video on social media the officer addedwith PTI inputs