India News | Three Held in Jharkhand for Raping 3 in Separate Incidents

Jamshedpur/Chatra (Jharkhand), Feb 4 (PTI) The police arrested three persons on the charge of raping two minors and a woman in two districts of Jharkhand, officers said.

A 20-year-old woman was raped in Chatra district on Monday night while she was returning home after attending a cultural programme organised on the occasion of Saraswati puja. A 16-year-old girl was also raped at her home in the same district on Sunday.

Also Read | PM Modi Speech in Lok Sabha: 25 Crore People Lifted out of Poverty in Last 10 Years; 5 Crore Houses Built for Poor, Says Prime Minister Narendra Modi (Watch Video).

Police said that a middle-aged man raped a three-year-old girl near her home in East Singhbhum district's Jamshedpur on Sunday.

Three persons allegedly involved in these cases were arrested on Tuesday.

Also Read | US Senate Committee Advances RFK Jr. Health Sec Nomination.

Two of the accused in the Chatra district cases were forwarded to judicial custody, police said.

(The above story is verified and authored by Press Trust of India (PTI) staff. PTI, India’s premier news agency, employs more than 400 journalists and 500 stringers to cover almost every district and small town in India.. The views appearing in the above post do not reflect the opinions of LatestLY)