Woman from Bengal gangraped in Bihar

Patna: A woman from West Bengal was gangraped by five men in Bihar’s Patna district, police said on Tuesday. The victim, a resident of Bolrampur village in neighbouring Bengal, was found lying unconscious by a roadside, with several injuries on her, by a team of National Disaster Response Force late Monday in Bihta, about 30 km from Patna, a police official said. [caption id=“attachment_1130383” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Protests against rape. Agencies.[/caption] Patna Senior Superintendent of Police Manu Maharaj said the Bengali speaking woman in her early 30s was gangraped. “Gang rape was confirmed by her medical examination at a local hospital,” he said. She was admitted to a government hospital. “With the help of a mason, who was working near the hospital, she informed the police that four-five people gangraped her,” police said. The woman told police that she parted from her husband at the Howrah railway station in Kolkata, and boarded a train. Police have lodged a case and begun investigations as to how she reached Bihta from Kolkata. No arrests have been made so far, police said. IANS