Bhojpur police arrest 3 accused in Khopira gang rape case

Kumar Rajiv Nayan

Patna : Police on July 17, 2018, evening, arrested three persons for their alleged involvement in  gang rape of a middleage woman in Bhojpur district.

The arrested miscreants were identified as Pramod Musahar, Shankar Musahar and Ram Babu Musahar of village Maniachchh under Pawana police station in Bhojpur district. All the three confessed their involvement in the gang rape and subsequent murder of the woman. Later, police forwarded them to Ara jail after interrogation.

The three miscreants had rangraped a mahadalit woman at village Khopira under Pawana police station on July 14, 2018, late evening and when she protested, they thrashed her and threw her in a bush unconscious.

Bhojpur SP Awakash Kumar on July 18, 2018, said on Wednesday that Pramod Musahar, Shankar Musahar and Ram Babu Musahar of village Maniachchh had reached village Khopira to meet Nand Kumar Musahar but his 45 yar old wife told them that he had gone to Chennai about three months back to work.

The SP said that the trio, in their confessional statement, said that when they came to know that Nand Kumar Musahar was not at his house, they requested his wife to escort them to some distance which she happily agreed to. The three men took her to an isolated place where they gang raped her on July 14 evening. When she protested, they thrashed and injured and when she fell unconscious, they threw her in a bush nearby and escaped.

Her family members searched for her when she did not return home till late night but in vain. On July 15, 2018, morning, some persons who were grazing their cattle in the field located her in the bush crying for help and informed her family members who rushed her to Sadar Hospital, Ara,  where she succumbed to her injuries the same evening.

The SP said that chargesheet against the accused would be filed in the court at the earliest so that the they could be penalised through speedy trial.