A 17-year-old girl who went missing from her home on October 26 was allegedly abducted by four men, who gang raped her for 10 days at a lodge in Whitefield. She was rescued by the Whitefield police, who were acting on a tip-off, on November 4.
All four accused — Raghavendra, 26, a native of Udupi; and his friends Manoranjan Das, 52, from West Bengal, who was running the lodge on a lease; Sagar, 22, from Davangere; and Manju Raj, 32, from Mysuru — have been arrested.
According to the police, the key accused Raghavendra had befriended the girl, who studies in a college in the city, on October 26.
In her complaint, the girl, however, refuted these claims and said that she was waiting at Kadugodi railway station for a female friend to attend a party. Two men turned up claiming they were sent by her friend to take her to the party. She accompanied the duo to the lodge in Whitefield.
At the lodge, she was sexually assaulted first by Raghavendra and then by his friends Das, Sagar and Raj, and confined to a room.
The victim’s father lodged a missing complaint on October 30 at the K.R. Puram police station. The Whitefield division police traced her to the lodge based on a tip-off and rescued her.
