Daijiworld Media Network - Belagavi (SP)

Belagavi, Feb 23: Four persons, who are said to be part of a gang which gangraped a medical college student in a forest area at Mutyanatti near Kakati here recently, were remanded to police custody for four days by judge of the third district additional court, Basavaraj Chatareddy, when they were produced in the court on Wednesday February  22.

The accused have been identified as Sanju alias Baba Daddi (24) from Mutyanatti village, Suresh alias Chacha (24) from Belagavi, Sunil alias Yallappa Rajakatti (21) from Dommagola, and Mahesh Shivanagola (23) from Managuthi village in Hukkeri taluk. They were arrested on Tuesday night and subjected to medical examination.

The victim in question, a first year medical college student hailing from Dharwad, had gone to the forest area at Mutyanatti for sight seeing on February 15. A male friend, who also is from Dharwad and student of diploma college  in the city, had accompanied her.  One of the accused saw the couple and called some friends over phone. The gang then followed the couple, and attacked them near a wind mill. They also gangraped the lady in the presence of her friend, and captured the proceedings on video through cellphone, police personnel said.

The friend of the girl said that the miscreants had snatched away money and cellphones from their possession. It is said that the gang members then started to blackmail the family of the girl by threatening them to expose the video. The police are on the lookout for the other members of the gang.