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Bhopal: Police in Madhya Pradeshs Rewa have rounded up five suspects in connection with the alleged gang-rape of a 19-year-old woman, hours after the opposition Congress accused the police of trying to suppress the matter owing to a Regional Industry Conclave held on 23 October...
Around 2 pm, they were allegedly attacked by a group of five men who threatened to kill the couple, before pulling the partner away, taking turns to rape the woman and fleeing the spot...
They spotted the couple and attacked, brutally assaulting the partner, raping the woman.. Police sources said both the woman and her partner are first-year college students enrolled in a Bachelor of Science (BSc) course..
She added that the couple approached the police on 22 October, a day after the alleged incident since they were scared that the accused may post a video of the alleged act on social media...
State vice president of the Congress partys womens wing, Kavita Pandey, who also visited the complainants home, told ThePrint over the phone, Despite the victim reporting the matter, police tried to suppress it as there was an industrial conclave scheduled the next day on 23 October..
