Aurangabad: Gang Seven to Ten Dacoits attacked and robbed the farmer’s family before allegedly raping two women from home somewhere in the rural Aurangabad around Tuesday midnight.
The gang targeted at least two nearby houses afterwards, police said.
Police sources say this is a recent Dacoity in the Aurangabad countryside.
In one of the previous incidents, a woman was also suspected of being raped by Dacoits.
However, he refused to file a complaint for fear of social stigma, they said.
The police suspected the involvement of hardened criminals, which had been released on emergency conditional liberation during Covid pandemics, in Dakoitas.
In the latest incident, Bidkin police on Wednesday afternoon recorded cases of armed dakoitas and Gangrape against the suspects.
The police said the robbers broke into the house, attacked three members of the male family and robbed them with cash and valuable items worth Rs 20,000 and three cellphones.
They tied family members while three or four of them raped the two women aged 23 and 30.
Dacoit then targeted the elderly couple who lived in the nearest farm and seized their valuables.
They then stole two-wheeled from other hamlets.
Senior police officers including the Nimeet police supervisor and the reach of MigP Malikarjun Prasanna rushed to the place.
Some teams from the branch of local crime and the Bidkin police station were formed to look for Dacoits.
Goyal told Tii, “The incident occurred at around 11:30 a.m.
on Tuesday night.
Dacoits first pelted stones at home where farm workers live before hanging up.” Assistant Assistant Police Bidkin Inspector Santosh Mane said the rape victims were being hospitalized.
“We have gathered some evidence with the help of forensic experts,” he said.