Bhopal: Two folks had been on Thursday arrested for the assault on two military officers and rape of their lady pal in a vacationer spot in Mhow in Indore district in Madhya Pradesh on September 11.
Of the six accused within the incident, two have to this point been arrested, Indore (rural) superintendent of police Hitika Vasal mentioned.
According to the police, two military officers, present process Young Officers (YO) course on the Infantry School in Mhow cantonment city, had gone out for a picnic together with their two feminine pals to the picturesque Jam Ghat space in Mhow late on Tuesday evening.
Around three am on Wednesday, a bunch of half a dozen miscreants arrived on the spot and began assaulting an officer and his feminine pal who had been sitting of their automotive.
Another military officer and a feminine pal who had been on the hilltop rushed to the spot upon listening to the commotion.
The assailants then held the military officer and his feminine pal, who had been contained in the automotive, hostage at gunpoint and requested the opposite officer and the girl to get them Rs ten lakh to let out the ‘hostages’.
The military officer had nevertheless knowledgeable his seniors who alerted the police. The attackers nevertheless had fled the spot by the point police reached the place. The military officers and their feminine pals had been later admitted to the Mhow civil hospital.
One of the 2 girls was suspected to have been raped, police mentioned.
A case has been registered beneath sections 70 (gangrape), 310-2 (dacoity), 308-2(extortion), 115-2 (voluntarily inflicting damage) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and beneath sections of the Arms Act.
According to the police, all of the accused are residents of the close by villages and two of them have earlier felony information.
“It was not an organised crime. The miscreants spotted the visitors and attacked them”, a police officer mentioned.
Meanwhile, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Thursday condemned the assault on the military officers in Mhow and expressed concern over rising incidents of violence towards girls in Madhya Pradesh.
He mentioned that the regulation and order within the BJP-ruled states has nearly collapsed. Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati additionally condemned the Mhow incident.
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