POLICE OFFICER, 4 OTHERS ARRESTED FOR GANG RAPE

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala police on Sunday arrested a station house officer (SHO) and four others in connection with a gang rape case in Kochi.

Police said the SHO of Beypore (Kozhikode) coastal police station, P R Sunu, and four others were arrested based on a complaint filed by a woman who is a Kochi resident.

In her complaint filed on Saturday, the woman said she was allegedly gang-raped by them first in her house in May and again in another house in Kochi two months later. Police said the victim’s husband was jailed in connection with an employment cheating case in April in Kochi and they had approached her citing this case.

According to Kochi police commissioner C H Nagaraju, the accused allegedly threatened the woman and gang-raped her.