A 32-year-old woman was allegedly gang-raped at knifepoint in the Santosh Bhavan area of Nalasopara, located in the Palghar district of Maharashtra, according to police.
Authorities have registered a case against two suspects, Jitendra Yadav and Avi Jaiswal, under sections 70(1) and 351(2) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and are actively searching for the accused.
30-Year-Old Woman Gangraped In Palghar
A similar incident was reported on September 10 in the same Nalasopara area, where a 30-year-old woman was also allegedly gang-raped.
According to ANI, Achole police station registered a case against three people under sections 64,70(1) and 351(2) of BNS and arrested three people Narendra Morya (age 31), Prakash Singh (age 26) and Panchraj Singh (age 35).
Moreover, the accused were brought into the court, where they have been remanded to police custody for five days.
Prior to this, on September 7, a 15-year-old girl who was riding in a rickshaw in Mumbai's Borivali neighborhood was allegedly molested by a 44-year-old rickshaw driver.
According to police, when the girl objected, the driver left the scene. After filing a report and beginning a search for the fugitive defendant, MHB police apprehended him on Friday from the Palghar district's Nalasopara area, where he had been missing for five days.