Two people have been accused of alleged gangrape of a mentally ill college girl in Tamil Nadu’s Chennai
A mentally-ill college going girl has been gang raped in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Police have arrested two accused. However, over five more accused are absconding.
The case has been registered at Chennai All-Women Police Station, after the victim’s father filed a complaint at the Ayanavaram Police Station.
The two accused, Naresh and Suresh, were nabbed on Saturday and the hunt for at least seven others is underway.
Officials have said that the victim, who has mental disabilities, is a student of a private college and told her father about the incident and named the two accused.
Police said that the two accused had taken the victim to a lodge in Chennai’s Wall Tax Road and raped her repeatedly.
After the incident, the girl was suffering with physical issues, including stomach pain.
The victim’s father has said that the accused were introduced to each other by a mutual friend from her college last year.
Preliminary probe also revealed that the girl was raped by a few others who befriended her over social media.
Police are making efforts to nab the remaining accused persons.
A case under eight sections in the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) and one section in the Information Technology Act has been registered while four special teams have been formed to hunt down the accused.
Meanwhile, the Opposition is accusing the ruling party of negligence. A political row has erupted over this.
Tamil Nadu Bharatiya Janata Party president K Annamalai on Sunday slammed chief minister MK Stalin on the incident. He questioned the delay in bringing justice to the victim.
All India Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami accused the Stalin-led Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam government and the police of negligence.
Follow us
