<p>In a ghastly crime, a woman constable in the process of performing the last rites for a dead relative was gang-raped in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>According to police, the widow, who had been given a job as a constable on compassionate grounds after her husband was killed by Maoists, was accompanied by relatives as she was taking the body to Garwah, about 150 km from Ranchi, Thursday night. <br /><br />The criminals stopped the vehicle near Jaldaga bridge of Latehar district, around 130 km from Ranchi, and looted the relatives who were accompanying the body.<br /><br />Three of the men then allegedly gang-raped the woman constable, in the very vehicle in which the body was kept. <br /><br />The constable lodged a complaint with police Friday. She also underwent a medical check-up. <br />Police have launched a hunt to nab the people involved in the crime. <br /><br />Jharkhand has witnessed a spurt in incidents of sexual crime in recent months. In Pakur district, six minor girls were gang-raped at two places last month.<br /></p>
<p>In a ghastly crime, a woman constable in the process of performing the last rites for a dead relative was gang-raped in Jharkhand's Latehar district, police said.<br /><br /></p>.<p>According to police, the widow, who had been given a job as a constable on compassionate grounds after her husband was killed by Maoists, was accompanied by relatives as she was taking the body to Garwah, about 150 km from Ranchi, Thursday night. <br /><br />The criminals stopped the vehicle near Jaldaga bridge of Latehar district, around 130 km from Ranchi, and looted the relatives who were accompanying the body.<br /><br />Three of the men then allegedly gang-raped the woman constable, in the very vehicle in which the body was kept. <br /><br />The constable lodged a complaint with police Friday. She also underwent a medical check-up. <br />Police have launched a hunt to nab the people involved in the crime. <br /><br />Jharkhand has witnessed a spurt in incidents of sexual crime in recent months. In Pakur district, six minor girls were gang-raped at two places last month.<br /></p>