GUWAHATI: Tripura police arrested five persons in a case of alleged gang rape involving a minor girl.The girl is now hospitalised and is not in a position to give her statement before a magistrate, the police said.On Friday, two of the accused, one of whom was reportedly known to the girl, allegedly picked her up from her home, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Shantirbazar police station in the South Tripura district.Subsequently, she was taken to a rubber plantation where the crime was committed. She was dropped near her house later that night, the police said based on a complaint.Her family got to know of the incident after she had fallen sick and approached the police on Saturday evening. “Immediately after receiving the information, we registered a case under relevant sections of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. During an investigation, we found the involvement of the five persons. Soon, they were arrested,” Ashutosh Sharma, who is the officer in charge of Shantirbazar Police Station, told the TNIE.
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