West Bengal: Two arrested for gang-raping girl remanded to 10-day police custody

Two persons who were arrested for allegedly gang-raping a teenage in Malda district were on Sunday remanded to 10-day police custody by a local court in Malda even as a manhunt continues for the three other accused who are absconding.

The two - Pintu Khan and Badriuddin were produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate who remanded them to 10-day police custody. A teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped by a group of five men at Manickchak in Malda district last evening.

The girl and a boy were going on a bicycle from Manickchak towards Gopalpur when the five men coming on motorbikes stopped them and allegedly gang-raped the girl. The girl lodged an FIR with the police officers in Manickchak police station and two of the accused Pintu Khan and Badriuddin were arrested.