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Communal Tension in M.P. Town After 7 Held for Rape
Hindustan Times Bengaluru
|May 07, 2025
Six men were arrested and a boy was detained for allegedly raping and blackmailing four girls in Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday after an obscene video of a minor surfaced on social media leading to communal tension in the area, police said.
BHOPAL:
Security was heightened in the village where the incidents took place after some Hindu organisations staged a protest and tried to torch the house of the main accused, identified as Farman Khan, in the afternoon.
This story is from the May 07, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times Bengaluru.
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