Two persons have been detained by the Palvancha police in Telangana’s Bhadradri Kothagudem district in connection with the gangrape of a 17-year-old Adivasi girl. The assault occurred on Friday night near Konta, along the Chhattisgarh and Andhra Pradesh border, where an autorickshaw driver and his accomplice allegedly raped the girl.

The accused, who are residents of Chathakonda village in Laxmidevipalli mandal, are small businessmen engaged in the trade of waste oil purchased from Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region.

On Saturday, the girl was found abandoned at Jagannadhapuram in Palvancha mandal. She was shifted to a local hospital by passersby before being moved to a state-run shelter in Kothagudem for further care.

Following the survivor’s complaint, Palvancha rural police registered a First Information Report (FIR) and took the two into custody. According to police sources, the assault took place when the girl was returning to her parents’ home in Chinturu from a relative’s house near Konta.

Last week, the Telangana police arrested 10 men for allegedly gang-raping a young woman and have sent them to judicial remand.

The accused, Mohammed Owaisi, Muthyala Pavan Kumar, Bauddhula Shiva Kumar, Nookala Ravi, Jetty Sanjay, Md. Abdul Khayoom, Pustakala Sai Teja, Muttadi Sumanth Reddy, Gunda Sai Charan Reddy, and Oruganti Sai Ram, are all residents of Jangaon town.

Police said the group lured the woman in June under the pretext of love and friendship, took her in a car to a room behind “Tea World” on the Jangaon–Suryapet road, and sexually assaulted her. One of the accused allegedly took the woman to Goa, claiming to be in love with her, and is reported to have had sexual relations with her multiple times there.

Following a complaint from the victim’s aunt, police registered a case.

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