Two youths were arrested on Tuesday in Jeypore town of Koraput district on charges of kidnapping a minor girl and her brother and then trying to rape the girl.
After the court rejected the bail plea of the two accused, Shiba Suna and Ishwara Chetti of Chhotaguda, the duo was sent to the Jeypore Sub-jail.
The girl and her brother Sunil Wasan from Jagdalpur were on their way to Visakhapatnam in an auto-rickshaw to attend a marriage on September 5 evening.
However, the auto-rickshaw dropped the brother-sister duo at Jeypore bus stand. Without having any option left, they decided to stay at a nearby lodge. But Sunil and his sister were denied a room in the lodge.
While they were at the bus stand without any clue to whom they can approach to get a room, Shiba and Ishwara reached there in a car.
Assuring Sunil and his sister of help, the two accused took them in the car towards Baipariguda Road. The accused then parked the vehicle near a forest and tried to rape Sunil’s sister in his presence.
Somehow, the girl managed to give a slip to the accused and ran into the forest. In the meantime, Sunil escaped from the spot too and rushed to the nearby police station and informed the cops about the incident.
A police rushed to the spot and after search rescued the girl from the forest on September 6 morning. Based on the complaint filed by Sunil, police intensified its probe and arrested the two accused.