8 youths, accused of gang-raping 4 teenage girls in western Tripura, were arrested within 6 hours of the case being registered.
According to the Tripura police, the accused, who was known to the 4 girls, had invited them for a joy ride on Saturday evening. The girls were taken to a rubber plantation in the Ranibazar area and allegedly raped there. The victims later managed to hire an auto-rickshaw to return home after the 8 accused left the area.
A massive manhunt was launched by the police after the families of the rape victims registered a case on Sunday and all the accused were arrested within hours. A local court on Monday sent all of them to judicial custody.
