Vadodara:
A teenage woman was allegedly raped by unidentified individuals, who restrained her male good friend, on a abandoned stretch on the outskirts of Gujarat’s Vadodara metropolis, police mentioned on Saturday.
The alleged crime was dedicated on a Navratri evening when revellers come out in massive numbers to take part in garba occasions organised all through the town.
The survivor advised the police that she had gone out to fulfill her childhood male good friend on the metropolis’s Laxmipura space at round 11 pm, mentioned Rohan Anand, Superintendent of Police – Vadodara (rural).
“They have been returning by the Bhayli locality on a Scooty when at round midnight, 5 individuals on two-wheelers intercepted them on an remoted highway,” the police officer mentioned.
Two of them left after some argument, whereas three others remained. Of those three, two people raped the teenage woman, whereas the third individual restrained her male good friend, he mentioned.
“As quickly because the culprits left, the teenagers knowledgeable the police. Cops reached the spot, cordoned off the world and picked up proof. Groups have been fashioned to establish the culprits utilizing technical surveillance and different means,” Anand mentioned.
The Gujarat authorities has lifted restrictions on garba celebration timings for this 12 months’s Navratri pageant.
In an identical crime, a 21-year-old lady was allegedly raped by three unidentified individuals, who additionally tied her male good friend utilizing his garments and belt and assaulted him, at an remoted place on the outskirts of Pune in Maharashtra on Thursday evening, police had mentioned.
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