A minor dalit girl in Mahakalpada was gangraped by six persons for nearly 16 days. The victim, a student of Class-X, lodged an FIR at the Makakalpada police station on Friday. The police conducted inquiry and detained a person.
Kendrapada SP Nitnijeet Singh said the victim on July 25 had gone to Bijaynagar-based Gramya Bank to withdraw her stipend money. On her way, one Amiya Mallick of Nantara village allegedly came by a motorbike and asked her to go with him. Amiya forcibly took her money, ATM card, mobile phone and bank passbook and asked her to come with him to her house.
later, he stopped his bike at a lonely place at Angulai Road and with his other five friends forcibly took her and sealed her mouth with a drug-laced handkerchief. The victim felt unconscious. When she recovered, she found herself in a building. On Thursday, Amiya left her near Haladiagada Chhak on the Paradip-Daitary Express way.