A day after a teenage girl had alleged that she was gangraped by unidentified men in front of her boyfriend, who was overpowered by them in Malda district of West Bengal, the police arrested her boyfriend on Sunday for being involved in the crime
The police arrested Pintu Khan, the boyfriend of the rape survivor along with another accused Badriuddin. Both were remanded to police custody by a district court for ten days.
The teenager had registered a complaint with the Manickchak police station.
“The lover has been arrested. It is true that he was present when the crime occurred,” Avishek Modi, Additional Superintendent of Police, Malda said.
The incident occurred on Saturday at Manickchak in Malda district when the couple was on a bicycle and five youths came from the opposite direction.
They overpowered the boyfriend and raped the girl. According to the police, the boyfriend was being pressurised by the girl for marriage.
Khan is already married had hatched the plan with other accused, the police said.