The police have arrested the main accused and another in the recent gang-rape of a minor in the Bindukhatta area. On May 20, five men had kidnapped and raped a minor residing in Tiwarinagar area of Bindukhatta.
On May 20, a girl living in Tiwarinagar was kidnapped by some men in a jeep. Anand Joshi, Pappu Rawat, Dilip Mehra, Anil Gupta and Bacchi Singh Tuleda had allegedly kidnapped the girl and taken her to the woods where she was gang raped and filmed by the accused.
Anand Joshi, Pappu Rawat and Dilip Mehra had already been arrested soon after the incident. The police had lodged a case against the three accused under sections 341, 355, 376 and others of the IPC. Anil Gupta and Bacchi Singh Tuleda were arrested by the police on Wednesday.
The police arrested Gupta from Haldwani while Tuleda was arrested by the police from the Bindukhatta area. It is pertinent to mention here that the locals had recently protested against the police accusing it of inefficiency citing the delay in arrest of all the men accused in the gang rape.