Newskarnataka-Mangalore
Mangalore : The Fourth Additional District and Sessions Court has held guilty two of the three accused who were arrested in connection with the case of gang rape of a minor girl from Odisha, in a stationed train at Mangalore’s Central Railway Station on July 14, 2010.
The quantum of punishment will be announced by the court on September 19. Those convicted are K Ashok (24) of Kadeshwalya, Bantwal and Nitish (20) of Attavar. Yet another accused namely Abdul Sattar alias Ayub (23) of Millatnagar, Ullal has been acquitted of charges. Police are still on the lookout for Shameesha of Payyanur said to be the main accused in the case. According to the police four persons were involved in the gang rape.
A total of 27 witnesses had deposed before the court.
The 15 year old girl from Somalpur, Odisha who worked as a domestic help in a house in Mangalore, was feeling homesick and had escaped from her employer’s house when the latter had been to church. She had come to the railway station where the four men on the pretext of guiding her to the train, pushed her inside the bogie of a stationed train and then raped her.