Berhampur/Phulbani, Odisha:
A 28-year-old trainee nun was allegedly gangraped by three youths after holding her forcibly for about a week in Odisha's Ganjam and Gajapati districts, police said on Monday.
The accused, including two cousins -- Jatindra Subhasunder and Jogendra Subhasunder -- were arrested, while the third person was still at large, Kandhamal district Additional Superintendent of Police, Gobind Chandra Mallick said.
The victim, who was being trained as a nun at the St Mary Convent in Chennai, received a call from a woman informing her that her mother was in serious condition, police said, quoting the FIR.
After she alighted from the train at the Berhampur railway station in Ganjam district on July 5, she was picked up by the two cousins who lived in her village.
The woman, who hailed from Minjapanka in Kandhamal district, had no reason to suspect them and accompanied them to their village under Bramhanigaon police station, police said.
But she was taken to unidentified places, including Gajapati district, where the two cousins along with a third man allegedly raped her for a week before dropping her back at the railway station in Berhampur on July 11, with a threat not to disclose the incident to anyone, they said.
The victim told her mother about her ordeal after reaching home last Saturday, Baliguda Sub-Divisional Police Officer K V Singh said.
Police have registered a case under section 355 (assault to dishonour person), 366 (kidnapping), 343 (wrongful confinement), 376 (rape), 501 (printing defamatory matter) and
120(B) (criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.
Mr Mallick said the two accused and the victim were medically examined at the MKCG Medical College Hospital in Berhampur. The woman caller was being traced.