Ranchi, July 19: In a shocking incident from Jharkhand, two girls were allegedly held captive and gangraped for two days in Gumla district. The girls were rescued earlier today. Two boys have been arrested in connection with the case. The police have started an investigation into the case.

It is not the first case of sexual assault against women. In similar incident, On June 19, five women working with an NGO were allegedly raped at a gunpoint by a group of at least five men in Khunti district of Jharkhand. The women were gangraped when they had gone to Chochang village to spread awareness on migration and human trafficking.

Father Alfonso Alien, who runs the missionary school from where the women were abducted, was also detained for questioning. The prime accused Baji Samad had been arrested from a village in West Singhbhum district on July 14. The team comprised Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel, and policemen from West Singhbhum and Khunti conducted a joint raid and arrested the accused.

Samad confessed that he and his friends had committed the crime at the instructions of self-styled leaders of Pathalgarhi. It is a practice in which villagers inscribe various tenets on huge stone slabs and ban outsiders in their area. In another incident in May, a 16-year-old girl was allegedly raped and set on fire in Kankarbona area of Pakur in Jharkhand. 

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