5 held for rape, torture of girl in Bengaluru, sufferer being tracked: police

Bengaluru police have arrested 5 individuals, together with a lady, in reference to a case of alleged sexual assault and torture of a lady within the metropolis’s Ramamurthy Nagar space. The incident got here to gentle after a video emerged on social media, the police stated on Friday.
Two of the accused had been fired at by police after they allegedly tried to flee whereas being taken for a criminal offense website inspection on Friday morning, the police stated.
The sufferer within the alleged incident continues to be being tracked by police and is reported to be in one other state.
The 5 arrested up to now have been recognized as Ridoy Babu, 25; Mohammed Babu Sahik, 30; Sagar, 23 (all from Bengaluru); Hakil, 23 from Hyderabad; and a lady who allegedly shared a room the place the alleged incident came about over every week in the past.
“Based on a video clip, wherein one woman was subjected to physical abuse and torture by a group of people, five culprits, including a woman, visible in the clip were traced and secured by Bengaluru City Police,” the police stated in an announcement. “On the basis of contents in the video clip and facts as disclosed during preliminary interrogation of the secured, a case of rape, assault and under other relevant provisions of law has been registered.”
The probe of the arrested individuals revealed that “the victim woman is away in a neighbouring state” and a police workforce has been dispatched to hint her, the police stated.
“As per information revealed so far, all of them are part of same group and believed to be from Bangladesh. Due to financial differences, culprits brutalised the victim, who is also said to be a Bangladeshi, brought to India for human trafficking,” the police stated.
Karnataka Home Minister Basavaraj Bommai stated the incident got here to gentle after Union minister Kiren Rijiju flagged a video on social media and sought extra info on it. “The video was viral on various social media sites and Union minister Kiren Rijiju had tweeted about the incident. Bengaluru police, within hours, traced the gang and its members were arrested,” Bommai stated.
“There are a a few more people involved in this case and they are in Kerala. We will arrest them soon and a team is formed to investigate this incident which is being supervised by the Bengaluru city police commissioner,” he stated.
On Friday morning, the 4 males arrested within the case had been taken to the home in Okay Channasandra, the place the alleged incident occurred, and two of them, Hridoy and Sagar, tried to assault policemen and escape, the police stated, including that hey had been shot of their legs.
The video of the alleged incident was reportedly circulated in Bangladesh and components of North-east of India.
Assam police traced the origin of the cellphone quantity from which the video was despatched and reportedly alerted Bengaluru police.
Following info from Assam police, particular groups had been fashioned by Bengaluru police and the gang was arrested on Thursday night from a rented home at Avalahalli, Ramamurthy Nagar in east Bengaluru, police stated. The accused labored as laborers in Bengaluru, the police stated.