Guwahati, June 3: Five men have been arrested in connection with an alleged gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl in Assam’s Biswanath district.
According to reports, the girl was gang-raped multiple times in a moving vehicle over several months before being rescued by the police last week.
Speaking to reporters, Biswanath Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Dipti Mali said that the group of locals intercepted a suspicious vehicle and rescued the victim from an area under the jurisdiction of the Biswanath Chariali Police Station.
“Locals reported that the girl and the occupants of the car were found in a compromising, half-naked state. The girl later revealed that she was subjected to forceful sexual intercourse by multiple men inside that moving vehicle,” Mali said.
Following her rescue, police registered a case under Sections 140(3) (abduction) and 70(2) (gang-rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, along with Section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act at the Biswanath Chariali Police Station.
The victim revealed that the ordeal began months ago when she was offered food by two men who asked her to get into their car, where she was subsequently raped by two to three men.
All five accused were produced before a local court following the final arrest on May 30, and further investigation is underway. Police confirmed that the vehicle used in the crime has been recovered.
The victim’s family members expressed deep trauma over the incident and have demanded immediate, exemplary punishment for the accused.
