A minor girl was allegedly gangraped by four youths at Tamanada village under the Jagannath Prasad police station in Ganjam district on Friday night.
Police have detained two youths in the connection with the incident.
Sources said the girl had gone to attend nature’s call in a nearby cashew plantation, where the four youths raped her. Family members of the girl conducted a frantic search as she did not return home. later, they rescued her from the cashew plantation in a serious condition.
The victim’s father lodged an FIR with the local police after she narrated her ordeal. He named four youths in the FIR of whom two have been detained by the police. Cops are interrogating them and have launched a manhunt to nab the two others, who are still at large. Police sent the victim to the MKCG Medical College Hospital here for a medical examination. Palpable tension prevailed in her village following the shocking incident.