13-year-old girl gangraped in Odisha, six held

This is the 15th case of the rape of a minor reported in the state in about a month.

Police in western Odisha’s Sambalpur district on Saturday arrested five persons and apprehended a minor on charges of raping a 13-year-old girl.

A woman stands with a placard during a protest against rapes, in New Delhi on May 5. (AP FILE)

Sambalpur superintendent of police Sanjiv Arora said the accused sexually assaulted the girl on Friday. “We managed to catch all of them today,” he added.

This is the 15th case of the rape of a minor reported in the state in about a month. During this period, at least six cases of molestation of minors too were reported.

In a separate case, police arrested a man on charges of raping an aanganwadi worker in Keonjhar district.

Another arrest in a sexual assault case was made in Balasore district, where police arrested a man for allegedly raping a married woman.