Woman gangraped by husband, friends

Bhubaneswar: In a shocking incident, a 27-year-old woman has registered a case against her husband and two of his friends at Saheed Nagar police station, which referred the case to Mahila police, alleging gangrape by the trio after being kidnapped and kept in confinement.

In her FIR, the victim, a resident of Bramhagiri area in Puri district, has also alleged that her husband and his friends tonsured her and were planning to sold her to someone in Jhansi, but she managed to get herself free and fled the house.

“My husband and his two friends kidnapped me from my father’s house on January 27 and raped me at Bramhagiri. Later, they brought me here and kept me in a confined room. They drugged and gangraped me repeatedly in the room,” she said.

After escaping from the house, the victim first approached Saheed Nagar police, who took her to Mahila police station to lodge the FIR.

As the incident took place at Bramhagiri area, the case will be handed over to the police there, the Bhubaneswar DCP said, adding that the accused are still absconding and police have launched a manhunt to nab them.