Overview

• Police say the Class 8 student was assaulted on the banks of the Salar Canal on Sunday night.
• The girl was intercepted while returning home from a restaurant with a friend, and her companion escaped to alert her family.
• Officers rescued the survivor and sent her for medical examination, with counselling being arranged.
• A complaint names five residents of Kuluri village under Salar Gram Panchayat; two have been arrested and searches are underway for three others.
• Days earlier, a separate Berhampore case during Durga Puja led to three arrests over an alleged gang-rape of a minor.