Newskarnataka – Bantwal

Bantwal: The City Crime Branch under the leadership of SP Dr Sharanappa and a special police team on Saturday May 17 arrested the prime accused Bobbekeri Basheer and Radhukatte Basheer in connection with the case of rape of a minor girl.

The accused, who are also known to be habitual offenders, had been absconding since the time a complaint was registered against them.

The police received credible information that they were hiding in Gujarat and thus the police teams left for Gujarat and nabbed them.

According to the case reports, one of the accused Bashir a resident of Radhukatte, in Vital Padnoor village, also has  charges of stealing  bikes. The third accused Jabbar is a  resident of Karyadi.  The accused had reportedly promised to marry the girl.

They allegedly took the  14-year-old girl of  Idkidu to Madikeri and raped her repeatedly for three days.  Their friend Jabbar, who came to know of the incident, took advantage of her and threatened to pour acid and kill her if she revealed the incident to anyone, stated the complaint filed by the girl in Vittal police station.

 The police are yet to catch hold of the third accused Jabbar. It is suspected that he might have left the country.