Bengaluru, April 3
In a shocking incident, a young woman migrant labourer from Bihar was kidnapped and raped while searching for food with her brother in the early hours of Thursday near a railway station in Bengaluru.
The incident was reported from the Mahadevapura police station limits.
The locals, who rushed to the spot on hearing the screams of the victim, managed to get hold of one of the rapists and handed him over to the police after thrashing him. The police, after grilling the accused, arrested one more culprit. One of the accused persons was identified as Ashif.
The police have registered a case under the Bharatiya Nayay Sanhita Sections 115 (2), 126 (2), 351 (2), 351 (3), 352, 64, 3 (5). The incident took place between 1.20 a.m. and 1.45 a.m.
According to police, the 19-year-old victim hails from the Banka district in Bihar. She and her family had travelled to the Kattappan village in Kerala a month ago to work in Cardamom fields. After the season ended, the girl's family decided to go back to their native village in Bihar. On April 1, they inquired from the people at the Ernakular railway station in Kerala on how to reach Bihar, where people guided the family to go to Bengaluru.