Police have arrested five persons for allegedly attempting to gang-rape a married woman of Jajpur district in a Government quarter at Ghasipura in Keonjhar district on Sunday.
According to reports, the woman was waiting for a bus near Shalapada Chhak under the Ghasipura police station in the evening to return to home. Five persons, who were present near the spot, convinced her to go with them.
On pretext of dropping the woman at her home, they took her to a residential quarter of the Water Resources Department, where they attempted to outrage her modesty.
However, the victim managed to call the police while being confined in a room.
“I had visited Keonjhar to meet one my uncle at Anandapur. While I was waiting for a bus to return to home, five youths came and started conversation with me. They told me to help me boarding a bus to my home. I agreed and went with them,” the victim said.
But they took me to a room and locked the door. When I tried to escape, they assaulted me and locked me inside a washroom. Left with no option, I called up my uncle, who suggested me to call the police. After receiving my phone, the cops rescued me from the house,” she added.