Two alleged in rape case arrested in Saptari

SAPTARI: Police have arrested two main alleged of a rape case that took place in Dakneshwori-7, Saptari.

According to DSP Tilak Bharati, the information official at the District Police Office Saptari, the police have nabbed two main alleged of a rape of a 17-year-old  girl of Saptari from Balan Bihul Rural Municipality, a village bordering with India.

DSP Bharati informed that Suman Kumar Mandal alias Bablu and Saroj Kumar Mandal alias Ranjit, 2 out of 4 involved in gang rape were nabbed from a village near Nepal- India border.

Police have intensified the search of other absconding alleged of the gang rape.

Sangita Mandal who had gone to see the water level in the newly planted paddy field was gang raped by 4 youths of the same village on September 14.

After the mother of the victim reported it to the village elders, the village elders in their ‘Panchayati’ — the assembly led by the village elders — had given pressure to the victim’s side to compromise the case taking Rs 55 thousand as compensation.

Disturbed and depressed Sangita had committed suicide after the incident.

Earlier, the police arrested Satya Narayan Mandal, Basudev Mandal, and Jaya Kant Mandal for their attempt to offer amnesty in such heinous crime like gang rape.

According to DSP Bharati, the postmortem report of Sangita has not come from BP Koirala Institute of Health Science though the postmortem was done on Tuesday.