PHULBANI: A woman of Bramhanigaon
area in Kandhamal district was arrested on Tuesday for assisting two men for gang-rapping
cousin sister, a nun, at Brahmapur railway station area.
The arrested woman was identified
as Nalini Subhasunder (32), a cousin of the 28-year-old victim, the police said.
Nalini was arrested from Mohana in Gajapati district.
The victim nun was undergoing
training in Chennai for last few months and she immediately returned after
getting a call from her cousin who had told that her mother was ill. She was
received by her cousin Jotindra Sobhasundar and his two friends at Brahmapur
railway station on July 5. The three accused picked her from the station and
kept her at different undisclosed places before raping her repeatedly between
July 5 and 11, said the police.
The victim lodged a complaint on
July 13 at Bamunigaon police station acting on which police arrested the duo
and sent them to jail on Monday. A medical examination has been conducted on
the victim at a hospital in Brahmapur.
Notably, a 28-year Catholic nun was
allegedly raped during the Kandhamal violence in 2008 which created hue and cry
within the country.
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