A man along with his four friends allegedly raped his sister and then killed her inᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Odisha's Kandham💮al district, police said on Monday.
The incident happཧened in Chakapad police station area on November 3, but the man and his friends were arrested on 💝Saturday after police cracked the case, they said.
A man along with his four friends allegedly raped his sister and then killed her inᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ Odisha's Kandham💮al district, police said on Monday.
The incident happened in Chakapad police station area on November 3, but the man and his frien𒊎ds were arrested on Saturdayಌ after police cracked the case, they said.
The 25-year-olꦯd woman came to know that his brother was having an illicit relationship with his sister-in-law. She asked him to end it and threatened that otherwise she would inform others about it.
To stop her, he hatched a plan, police said.
On the day of the incideꦅnt, the woman went to a nearby forest to collect Siali leav𒈔es. Her elder brother was also there with his cows.
He called his four frie🌸nds to the fore🦩st, got them drunk and under the influence of alcohol, they took turns in raping her, police said.
As the woman fought back, they strangulated her, and then attacked her wiღth an axe, killing her on the spot, said Lalit Mohan Sagar, the inspector-in-charge of Chakapad police station.
The𝐆 brother also lodged a missing person's complaint with the police on November 6, he said.
The woman's decomposed body was found in the fore⛎st on November 7, and in the post-mortem examination, it was found that she was raped by multiple people and then killed, he added.
-With PTI Input