Two Khunti gang-rape accused arrested

RANCHI: The police on Saturday arrested two of the six accused who allegedly abducted five women anti-human trafficking activists at gun point and raped them in a forest area in Khunti district early this week.

A catholic priest Fr Alfanso Aien of RC Mission School, from where the victims were abducted, was also arrested allegedly for hushing up the crime and having some links with the perpetrators, police said.

“The two arrested accused, Ajub Sandi and Ashish Longo, both residents of West Singhbhum district, confessed to having raped the women, videographed the entire dastardly act and forced the victims to drink urine. The police have identified the other four accused and launched an intensive search operations to nab them,” said additional director general (operation) RK Mallick.

Five tribal women, in their twenties, engaged with an NGO supported by Christian missionary, were abducted by armed men while they were performing a street play at RC Mission School in Khunti’s Kochang village under Arki police station, about 90 km from Ranchi, on June 19 afternoon. They were forced to sit inside a car, taken to a nearby forest area and raped.

“Accused Sundi and Longo, believed to be members of People’s Liberation Front of India and supporters of Pathalgarhi movement, were also identified by the survivors during test identification parade. Their confessional statements were recorded before a magistrate. The three arrested were produced before the court which sent them to judicial custody,” the ADG said It turns out there are two inflection points of Indian monthly household expenses: Rs 580-Rs 690 for rural areas and Rs 1,100-1,380 for urban dwellers. Gokarn’s simulation revealed that about 220 million Indians during 2006-11 would have crossed these two thresholds of monthly expenditure at which “diets shift decisively towards higher consumption” of more nutritious food, especially proteins. ”At the aggregate level, this analysis presents a dramatic picture of how increasing affluence is impacting spending on protein sources. This pattern is in complete conformity with global historical precedents,” Gokarn wrote in a paper published on RBI’S website.