5 gang rape accused held

The police have arrested five persons who had allegedly gang raped a woman in Odisha’s Jharsuguda district.

The police said the incident occurred when the woman, 38, and her husband had gone to a temple in Brajarajnagar town of the district, about 370 km west of
Bhubaneswar, on Saturday evening.

The five men accosted the couple, beat up her husband and gang raped her. HTC

First Published: May 21, 2013 00:38 IST