Kodagu police have arrested a gang of five men recently who allegedly abducted two minor girls and sexually assaulted one of them near Nathangala, on the Karnataka-Kerala border near Kutta in Virajpet taluk. It is reported that the other girl managed to escape and acting on the tip-off, the police arrested all the five accused.
The accused are Ravindra (24) and Akshay (27), the residents of Nathangala, Rahul (21), Manu (25) and Sandeep (27) from Nadundana Colony, Tolpatti, Kerala. Cases have been registered against accused.
The police said that the three of the five accused persuaded the two girls to get into their car and sped to a coffee plantation in Nathangala, where the two other accused joined them.
One of the girls was raped by the accused and an attempt was made by them to sexually assault another girl too. However, the latter escaped and alerted the villagers nearby.
When the accused tried to flee, the villagers stopped their car. The accused dropped the victim girl and fled from the spot.
