Five perpetrators have been arrested for the brutal gang-rape of a minor girl belonging to the Paharia community, a primitive tribe, in the Kathikund police station area of Dumka district. The victim had gone to meet her boyfriend near the Gumra Bridge in the Kathikund area. While they were talking, five youths took the girl hostage, and in front of her boyfriend, started making obscene gestures towards her. When the boyfriend protested, he was assaulted.
