Four accused are yet to arrested in a gang rape and sexual assault case of 27-year women that was held on 20th December at Rangapania village in western Tripura, which triggered violence in the valley.
According to police, the violence erupted in the western Tripura similar like it is going on in national capital and police have imposed curfew in the area. Four more men are yet to be arrested in this case while police have nabbed seven accused including three women in stripping, beating, sexual assaulting and raping in the public.
One of the absconding men is the victim's husband, police offical said on Monday.
"Efforts are on to nab the remaining offenders, including the victim's husband Samir Kar. We have arrested seven people, including three women, in connection with the incident," said Sipahijala district police chief Smriti Ranjan Das to media.
Leaders of the All India Democratic Women Association (AIDWA) led by Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) central committee members Rama Das Sunday visited Rangapania village where the incident took place and met the victim's daughter, mother and others.
Another delegation of the opposition Congress led by Subal Bhowmik and Ashish Saha met the woman's family Monday.
"Though Congress activists were involved in the incident, we are not making a political issue of it. We have asked the government for strict punishment of the culprits," CPI-M state secretary Bijan Dhar told reporters.
According to the district police chief, the 26-year-old woman was stripped naked and brutally tortured for hours by 10 people, including three women, in full public glare at Rangapania village in western Tripura last week.
"After the brutal torture, the woman was tied to a tree for hours before her father came from a neighbouring village and rescued her," police said.
Earlier, police had said the woman was gang-raped.
Police said that a day before the incident, two of the seven arrested culprits molested the woman when she was going home from the market.
Police suspect that the woman's husband might have engaged the culprits to molest his wife as she refused to bring more dowry. He, too, is an accused in the case.
The victim married Samir Kar nine years ago and has a seven-year-old daughter.
--With IANS Inputs--
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