Adivasi woman gang-raped at Dahivat

JALGAON: A four-member-gang, who entered into a hut of adivasi-couple at Dahivat-Shivar in the district early on Tuesday, raped an adivasi woman and fled with small cash and some grass-cutting-instruments, police said on Wednesday.
    
Police said that the four members entered into an agriculture-field owned by one Madhukar Wagh, where Dilvarsingh Sonawane and his wife were asleep in their hut. The gang knocked the door, beaten up the couple, tied Dilvarsingh by a rope to his bullock-cart and gang-raped his wife.
    
Later, they took away cash of Rs 60, some grass-cutting instruments and fled under the cover of darkness. On a complaint by a woman, police have registered offence against the four unidentified persons.
    
DSP Santosh Rastogi, visited the rural hospital, where the woman victim is being treated at Mehunbare and assured that police will arrest the culprits very soon, police added.