Bhubaneswar: A 19-year-old girl was allegedly violated by two men while she was going to take a holy dip on the occasion of Makar Sankranti in Odisha’s Baripada town on Thursday, said police.
The Baripada town police arrested two persons including a minor after the victim lodged an FIR in this connection.
The incident occurred in a village under Baripada Town Police limits in Mayurbhanj district in the early hours of Thursday.
Birendra Senapati, Baripada town Inspector In-Charge, said the victim was heading towards a river for the dip when two youths of the locality took her forcibly and violated her at a secluded place near the river bed.
Later, the girl somehow managed to escape the spot and narrated her ordeal to her elder sister following which a complaint was lodged at the Baripada Town police station.
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