Two employees of the Sri Radha Rani temple in Uttar Pradesh have been arrested for allegedly raping a pilgrim from Odisha, police said on Friday.
Temple watchman Kanhaiyya Yadav and cook Panga Thakur were taken into custody on Thursday evening on the basis of the pilgrim’s medical test report.
The victim alleged that she was raped on September 11 in the temple premises, police said.
The action against the accused followed after Mathura’s Senior Superintendent of Police Swapnil Mamgai’s intervention as local police allegedly did not act on the victim’s complaint.
The two accused have been suspended by the temple management, according to Krishn Murari Goswami, a senior temple official.