Two arrested for gangrape in WB

Two persons who were arrested for allegedly gangraping a teenage in Malda district were on Sunday remanded to 10-days police custody by a local court here even as a manhunt continues for the three other accused who are absconding.

The two — Pintu Khan and Badriuddin were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate who remanded them to 10-days police custody.

A teenage girl was allegedly gangraped by a group of five men at Manickchak in Malda district on Saturday evening. The girl and a boy were going on a bicycle from Manickchak towards Gopalpur when the five men coming on motorbikes stopped them and allegedly gangraped the girl.

The girl lodged an FIR with the police officers in Manickchak police station and two of the accused Pintu Khan and Badriuddin were arrested.