Overview

• Brothers Bhagyadhar Das (60) and Panchanan Das (58) were arrested and charged after police allege they repeatedly assaulted a 15-year-old at their ashram workplace.
• Police say the men discovered the victim’s five-month pregnancy and threatened to bury her alive if she refused to seek an abortion.
• The girl escaped from a prepared burial ditch, notified her father and received treatment at the District Headquarters Hospital.
• Authorities filed charges under the POCSO Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Kujang Police Station as investigators collect evidence.
• Officers are conducting a manhunt for the third suspect, Tulu Babu, as growing public outcry follows a string of child rape cases in Odisha.