Five arrested in Kerala for gang-rape of woman in lodge
Five people were arrested in Thrissur, Kerala, for abducting and gang-raping a woman. Reports indicate the suspects posed as police officers to enter a lodge where the victim was staying with a male friend, allegedly at the behest of the friend's wife.
First reported 6 hours ago · latest update 2 hours ago
A woman who visited a private lodge with her married male friend was allegedly kidnapped by a five-member gang posing as police officers and gang-raped in Kerala's Thrissur. The man accompanying her was brutally assaulted, suffering fractures to his hands and legs, before being abandoned outside a hospital in Tamil Nadu.The incident took place last month when the woman, from Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur, had travelled with her male friend to Kerala and stayed in a room together near a KSRTC bus stand.
Shortly after, five men - who posed as police officers - forcibly entered their hotel room, tied the hands and legs of both the man and woman with cloth, gagged them and took them to Tamil Nadu in a car.The man was brutally assaulted throughout the journey. His hands and legs were fractured. After abandoning him near a hospital in Tiruppur, two men allegedly transferred the woman to another car and raped her.Based on information provided by the survivor, Tamil Nadu Police registered a case and handed it over to the Thrissur City Police.Investigation revealed that the man's wife had given a contract to the accused men to carry out the crime.
She allegedly tracked her husband's phone location and passed the information to the gang.Police have arrested all five accused, including the man's wife, and further investigation is underway.
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The gang allegedly posed as cops and barged into the lodge room from where the two were forcibly taken away in a car.
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Five individuals were arrested in Thrissur for allegedly abducting and gang-raping a woman. They posed as police officers when they entered the lodge where the woman and her male friend were staying. The man's injuries included broken arms and legs after being assaulted during the incident. The attackers abandoned him outside a hospital near Tiruppur after the incident.
6 hours ago · SHREEDHAR RATHI