Overview
- Police arrested three men in Mysuru district and three people, including a woman, in Devanahalli; all accused have been produced in court and remanded to judicial custody.
- The Mysuru case, reported in the intervening night of July 18–19, involves a 30-year-old West Bengal woman who alleges she was forced into a car at a private bus stand, taken to a lodge, sexually assaulted and robbed of cash and two phones.
- The Devanahalli case, reported from the night of July 17, involves a 14-year-old who says she was lured on the pretext of a temple visit, forced to drink alcohol, taken in an autorickshaw to an under-construction building and raped.
- Investigators have registered FIRs under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita in the adult case and under IPC, POCSO and gang-rape provisions in the minor case while seizing the autorickshaw, collecting CCTV and technical evidence, and completing medical and forensic exams.
- Police say they are verifying conflicting accounts—accused in the Mysuru matter claim the woman went with them voluntarily—and officials have shifted survivors for medical care and counselling as the probe continues to determine charges and next steps.