- विज्ञापन -
Koppal: Police in Karnataka on Saturday arrested two persons in connection with the horrific incident of three persons committing gang rape on two women, including an Isreal tourist and a female local homestay owner and killing a male Indian tourist who was with them.
The arrested persons are identified as 22-year-old Mallesh aka Handi Malla and 21-year-old Chetan Sai Sillekyatar. Both are arrested by the Koppal Rural police. Both the arrested accused are locals and residents of Sainagar in Gangavathi taluk in Koppal district.
Another accused, their close associate has managed to escape from the police and the special teams have intensified the hunt for him.
The preliminary investigations have revealed that the accused approached the victims on the pretext of asking for money for petrol. The victims had given them Rs 20 and asked them to leave. However, the accused started an argument with them asking for Rs 100 and started assaulting them.
They attacked the tourists and locals, a group of five persons, with stones and hands. They had pushed three men into the canal and sexually assaulted two women, a female from Israel and a local homestay owner.
Two of the accused gang raped the local homestay owner, while the female Israel national was raped by one of the accused, sources stated. More details are yet to emerge regarding the exact sequence of events and on nature of sexual assault.
The victims did not know each other and had become friends after their arrival to the homestay.
Koppal SP Ram L Arasiddi stated on Saturday that a woman from Israel and home stay owner were sexually assaulted. The tourists had gone to the spot for stargazing, they had carried a guitar with them. Two tourists, one from Nasik in India and another from America have managed to swim out of the canal after being pushed by the accused persons.
Another tourist from Odisha who had not come back from the canal has been found dead in the canal. His body was recovered from the canal at 10.30 am on Saturday, he stated.
The rape victims are recovering at the hospital while the body of the tourist from Odisha was found in the Tungabhadra Left Canal near Sanapura village near Gangavathi town on Saturday.
