Crimes against women continue unabated in the State with yet another incident of gangrape being reported from Dhenkanal district on Tuesday.
A 28-year-old Anganwadi Worker was kidnapped and raped by three youths in a farmhouse at Kukudajhar village under the Sadar police station in the district on Monday.
Police detained the three accused identified as Laxmidhar Biswal (38) of Joranda village and Antaryami Das (30) and Gobinda Pradhan (32) of of Atinda village in the district. The cops also seized the car used in the kidnapping.
Sources said that when the Anganwadi Worker was returning to her house in Gondia block with her brother by a motorbike in the evening, the three miscreants came by a car and intercepted them near a cashew plantation. They took the woman with them after attacking her brother. Later, the trio took her to the farmhouse and raped her one by one. After committing the crime, they fled from the spot leaving the woman there.
Soon after, the woman called up her brother, who along with police reached the spot and rescued her. Acting on a complaint lodged by the woman, the Gondia police detained the three accused and began interrogating them.
Dhenkanal SP Santosh Nayak said accused Laxmidhar has confessed that he raped the woman to settle a score while the two others helped him commit the crime.
“Laxmidhar said he had helped the Anganwadi Worker get the job, for which she was supposed to give some money to him. When she did not give the money, Laxmidhar hatched the plan to rape her,’ said Nayak.