A pregnant tribal woman in Sundargarh has accused the Tangarpali BJD block general secretary and another person of raping her. The Sundargarh police have registered a case and are investigating into the allegation.
Both the accused are absconding to evade arrest.
Sources said the 25-year-old woman, who is six-month pregnant, has been living with a person, who is a divorcee, at Ujawalpur under the lepripada police station. She lodged an FIR with the police that on Sunday morning while she was alone at her house she was raped by one Santosh Kumar Acharya and another Bijay Kumar Sharma, both residents of the Ujwalpur area. She has mentioned that both Acharya and Sharma also rebuked her in filthy language and threatened to kill her. When Sundargarh SP R Prakash came to know about the FIR, he ordered DSP Dhiren Kumar Swain to investigate the case.
On Monday, the police sent the woman to the Sundargarh Government hospital for medical examination. Santosh Acharya is an advocate and also the BJD general secretary of Tangarpali block and Bijay Sharma is a businessman. DSP Dhiren Swain said, “Very soon, both the accused will be arrested.”