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Another Gangrape Incident Rocks Odisha’s Rourkela City

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OB Bureau

Rourkela: Another incident of gang rape has been reported from Odisha’s Rourkela, raising concern about safety of women in the steel city.

In the incident which took place near Raghunathpali Century Park on Sunday, a minor girl was allegedly gang-raped by five men when she had gone to a restaurant in Civil township. The matter came to the fore after the survivor narrated her ordeal and lodged a complaint with Raghunathpali police on Tuesday.

This is the third such incident reported in last few days in the city.

On Saturday evening, two teenage girls hailing from Jharkhand were allegedly gang-raped while returning to a close relative’s house in a slum in the industrial city after buying footwear from a local market.

A teacher had allegedly behaved inappropriately with a Class 9 girl at a private school in the city on Tuesday.

 

OB Bureau

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