The police are searching for the accused (Representational)
A 20-year-old woman in Madhya Pradesh s Shahdol district, around 500 kilometres from state capital Bhopal, was kidnapped, kept captive at a farmhouse for two days and repeatedly gang raped by four people, the local police said today. One of the accused is a local leader of the ruling BJP.
The rape survivor s family today said that she was kidnapped on February 18 when she had gone to buy groceries. Initially, a relative said, they didn t lodge a missing complaint thinking she might have gone to her relative s house. She was found in an unconscious state near her house on February 20, hours after they filed a complaint.
She was forced to drink liquor in a farmhouse in Gadaghat area under Jaitpur police station limits and then gang-raped on February 18 and 19, police said.