The Kendrapada police arrested two persons on Tuesday for allegedly gangraping a minor girl at Naraharipur under the Kendrapada Sadar police station on last Wednesday night.
The arrested duo was identified as Nirmala Pradhan alias Kuna and Abhimanyu Swain alias Bangali of the victim’s village.
Kendrapada SP Rabi Narayan Behera said the victim, a Class IX student of Aripada High School, was gangraped by some youths while she was going to draw water from a tube-well.
The girl alleged that two youths with the help of a yet unidentified one forcibly took her to a nearby shop and tied her leg and hands and put clothes on her mouth and started abusing her sexually one after another. On Tuesday, the victim was sent for medical examination to the District Headquarters Hospital.