Hans News Service Kendrapara

TheOdisha Police on Tuesday detained two persons in Chhattisgarh in connection with the gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl at a place hardly 200 metres away from the office of the Superintendent of Police in Kendrapara district, an officer said on Tuesday. The incident took place at Jajanga on Monday night and came to light on Tuesday after the victim’s mother lodged a complaint at the Kendrapara Sadar police station, alleging that two persons in an inebriated state forcefully took her daughter to a secluded place while the victim had gone to attend to nature’s call. It was alleged that the two raped the minor girl at knifepoint. The accused also assaulted her when she tried to resist them. The miscreants also threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the incident, the police officer said. After the complaint was filed, the police launched an investigation and detained two accused persons, aged 30 and 34 years. A case was registered against the accused under various sections of the BNS and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Kendrapara SP Siddharth Kataria said. The girl and her parents, who hail from a village in Chhattisgarh, have been selling brooms and residing in a roadside tent for the last three months, police said.