According to police, the arrested woman identified as Geeta, a resident of Ludhiana, Punjab, lured a 15-year-old girl while her parents went to their native place and held her captive in Surat, Gujarat, for four months.
A youth was arrested on charges of molestation at a village within the Kotulpur PS area in Bankura.
Hundreds of villagers, primarily women, blocked the road connecting Falakata in Alipurduar district today to protest the alleged rape and murder of a five-year-old girl.
The incident occurred at the Siddh Baba hillock near the Puchi village on Tuesday.
On allegations of negligence from police officers on rape and murder of a 9-year-old school girl, a mob set a police outpost and vehicles on fire at Mahishmari Joynagar in South 24-Parganas, this morning.
"...the woman was forcibly taken to a nearby lodge, detained, and raped by an unidentified gang including the manager of the lodge"
The survivor reported the recent message from the perpetrator's Facebook account that says, “So I raped you.”
A total of 1,963 cases were registered in 2020 as compared to 1,956 in 2019.
According to Mr Bista, they wanted to extend their solidarity with the family members of the girl in their quest for justice and to ensure severest of punishments for the perpetrator.
According to reports, the woman was raped and her husband held hostage by 17 men when the couple was returning home from a market.
