14year old gang raped in Odisha’s Kuchinda, four detained

SAMBALPUR: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by four youths at Kuchinda here during the wee hours on Sunday.

The girl was reportedly returning home after watching a jatra show when the accused committed the crime at around 2 am. Police have detained the four suspects and are interrogating them.

As per the complaint filed by the girl’s family, the minor along with her cousins had gone to watch a jatra show near their village on Saturday night. The girl reportedly got into an argument with the accused over some issue which was later settled by the jatra committee. However, when she was returning home, the suspects abducted her and took her to a nearby forest where they took turns to rape her.