Bhawanipatna: Five year after the rape of a woman, Dharamgarh Additional District and Session court in Odisha’s Kalahandi district sentenced six accused to life imprisonment.
The convicted persons are Lalindra Sabar, Labanya Chatria, Anirudha Chatria, Prakash Naik, Santa Naik and Amit Naik. Three other accused, who had allegedly posted a video of the crime on social media, were released due to lack of evidence, PTI reported quoting public prosecutor Purna Chandra Nag.
The incident took place in September 2019 Lalindra Sabar offered the woman, an acquaintance, a lift on his motorcycle when she was on her way home from Bhawanipatna town. He along with his associates, however, raped the woman in a roadside forest and videographed the crime.
Junagarh police later registered a case on the basis of a complaint lodged by the parents of the woman and arrested the culprits.