The four accused, including the kingpin, arrested by the Pipili police on the charges of gangraping a woman from a village in Teisipur panchayat in Puri district on September 14, were remanded to judicial custody after the Court of Judicial Magistrate, First Class (JFMC) rejected their bail pleas on Wednesday.
The four accused are Bijay Senapati (26) and Siba Behera (32) of Kankanadua village under the Pipili police station, Om Prakash Das (28) of Haripur under the Balanga police station and litu Rath alias Kalia (24) of Nuasasan Uttarasahi village.
Acting on the complaint by the father of the victim, the police had arrested Bijay and Om Prakash from Kuha village under the Airfield police station in Bhubaneswar the same day and seized the jeep used in the crime from their possession. The other two accused were arrested two days after the incident from the Pipili area. The police, meanwhile, are on the lookout for Rama and Kaba, two other accused as per the statement of the victim.
The accused persons had allegedly gangraped the woman after abducting her from her house at about 7 pm in a jeep. later, they threw her out of the vehicle near the backyard of her house. The victim, after struggling her way back to her home, fell unconscious. The victim is now undergoing treatment at the SCB Medical College Hospital in Cuttack.