Five men were arrested for allegedly gangraping a 15-year-old girl from Assam's Biswanath district multiple times in a moving vehicle over several months.
The survivor was rescued by the police last week after locals intercepted a suspicious vehicle and reported a compromising state.
The girl revealed that she was subjected to forceful sexual intercourse by multiple men inside the moving vehicle.
Following her rescue, police registered a case under sections 140(3) (abduction) and 70(2) (gang-rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, along with section 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
The accused, aged between 19 and 23, are from the same locality as the survivor and allegedly exploited her family's vulnerable financial condition.
The survivor has been shifted to a government shelter home due to inadequate care and supervision at home.
Further investigation is underway, and police have recovered solid forensic and circumstantial evidence from the vehicle.
