Two persons arrested for raping 20-year-old girl

Kendrapara: Two persons were arrested for allegedly raping a girl at a village in Odisha's Kendrapara district, police said today.

The girl of Chandanpur village was allegedly gangraped by Suresh Sethi of the same village and Hrusikesh Sethi of Gulanagar while she was alone in her house on Tuesday, they said.

On Tuesday evening, the father of the girl filed an FIR in the police station and alleged that she was gangraped by two youths. The 20-year-old girl was medically examined and the report is awaited, they said.

The accused were arrested yesterday from their hideouts, said Rabi Narayan Behera, Superintendent of Police of Kendrapara.

Both the arrested persons were produced in the court which rejected their bail applications and sent them to jail, added the police officer.