Kolkata, October 31: A court has sent eight people arrested for the gang rape of a 19-year-old girl in West Bengal’s Nadia district to judicial custody for 14 days. Police gave this information on Thursday.
According to the police, these eight persons were arrested for their alleged involvement in the gang rape of a girl who was walking along the railway tracks with her husband on Wednesday morning.
The accused were detained from nearby areas after the couple lodged a complaint at Kalyani police station a few hours after the incident.
Four of the accused were produced before a Kalyani-based court on Wednesday, which sent them to 14-day judicial custody. At the same time, four others were produced in the court on Thursday and they were also sent to judicial custody.
A case has been registered against all these accused under sections 78 (stalking) and 70 (gang rape) of the Indian Justice Code (BNS).
A senior police officer said that the medical report of the rape victim will be received on Monday.
(This is an unedited and auto-generated story from a syndicated news feed; it is likely that it has not been modified or edited by LatestLY staff)
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