In a horrifying crime, a woman doctor hailing from Bihar was allegedly gang-raped by three persons including two juveniles, while two co-accused held her male colleague, in Vellore district shortly past midnight on March 16.

The Vellore North Police said the woman was returning with her colleague, a native of Nagpur in Maharashtra, after watching a night show at a cinema hall in Katpadi when they boarded a share auto-rickshaw in which there were four male ‘passengers’. However, instead of going to their destination in the Old Town via the Green Circle on the Chennai - Bengaluru Highway (NH 48), the driver headed towards Sathuvachari. The accused also robbed them ₹40,000 cash and two sovereigns of gold jewellery.

Giving details of the case in the Assembly and replying to former Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami, who raised the issue CM Stalin said “It was during the interrogation that the police found the three [and two juveniles] had abducted a man and a woman from Galaxy theatre, who asked for directions to CMC [Christian Medical College]. They had gang-raped the woman and had forcibly withdrawn ₹40,000 from the ATM using a [bank] card from the man.”

Stalin also said the survivor had left for Bihar, her home State, and filed an online complaint on Tuesday. A case has been registered in Vellore North police station under Sections 147, 148, 342, 365, 368, 376 (D), 376 (E), 395, 397, 506 (ii) of the IPC read with Section 4 of the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013.