Three persons were arrested by Rourkela police here on Friday allegedly for kidnapping and raping a girl.The police also seized two stolen Bolero jeeps, which were used in the crime.
The boy friend of the victim girl is also another accused, who is receiving treatment now in hospital and will also be arrested in the case.
Sources said, on September 16, a 22-yr-old girl of a remote village under Gurundia police station of Sundargarh district reportedly had reached at Chhend Police station, Rourkela and lodged a complaint of kidnapping and rape.
According to her complaint, the victim girl and her boyfriend were coming in a two wheeler on September 15 evening, when their motorcycle had met with an accident, due to which the victim girl and her boyfriend had fallen down near Tamada square .
Her boyfriend had received some injury where as the girl had escaped unhurt. She mentioned that two persons, who were in a Bolero vehicle, had forcefully lifted the girl to their vehicle and had driven away from the spot.
They drove down to Rourkela and took her to a secluded location beside the Rourkela Airstrip. Another person in another Bolero vehicle, who happens to be a friend of the two miscreants, also reached the spot.
Three miscreants had allegedly raped the victim girl in their vehicle repeatedly, throughout the night. During morning hours, when locals started coming to that area for morning walk, the three miscreants had left the spot, abandoning the victim girl.
After registering a case, police had started searching the accused. Rourkela SP K Shiva Subramani had directed SDPO Panposh, to conduct the inquiry into the matter. During the investigation, police came to know that the boyfriend of the victim girl, although promised to marry the girl, was in fact a married person.