The incident occurred at Baliharichandi beach under Brahmagiri police station of Puri district on Saturday. However the rape survivor, deeply traumatized after undergoing the harrowing ordeal, volunteered to lodge a complaint yesterday.
Police swung into action to arrest three of the culprits who had recorded video, clicked pictures while the victim flanked by her male companion was spending some leisure time at the pristine beach.
Three of the accused persons booked under section 70 of BNS (gangrape) have been arrested and search is on to nab others involved in the crime.
While accused persons and the victim have been medically examined, forensic teams are on the job to gather legal evidence at the crime spot, said Puri Superintendent of Police, Prateek Singh.
The mobile phones used by the accused persons to record video and click pictures were seized and have been sent to State Forensic Sciences Laboratory in Bhubaneswar for scientific examination and retrieval of the data.
The gangrape of comes on the heels of a similar crime that was perpetrated at Gopalpur beach in Ganjam district in June last when a 20-year-old female student was gangraped by 10 persons in front of her male companion.
