Police on Friday filed a charge sheet within 35 days before a court here against four persons allegedly involved in the gangrape of a minor orphan girl who later immolated herself.
“We have filed the charge sheet before the court of sub-divisional judicial magistrate, Rayagada, against four accused persons under various sections of IPC,” in charge of Rayagada town police station Prasant Kumar Bhupati said. Four accused persons identified as Bharat Khosla, Naveen Mallik, Mallik Khosla and Muna Chhatria were arrested immediately after the crime and sent to jail custody. The accused, who are aged between 19 to 24 years, were charged with gang-rape, abatement of suicide, criminal intimidation, wrongful restraint, wrongful confinement and voluntarily causing serious hurt, Bhupati said.
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