The Thane police on Friday arrested three more people in connection with the gang-rape of a 15-year-old girl with 33 people, taking the total number of arrests in the case to 29.
The police have also formed teams to inspect the places where the alleged sexual assault on the minor took place, and confiscated all the mobile phones of the accused for analysis to find out if their phones contained any part of the act. Whether there is a video or not, which is in the form of a girl. was allegedly used to blackmail him.
Police said forensic analysis of all the alleged crime sites would be done.
The victim had on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the police in Thane district alleging that she was gang-raped by 33 people, including two minors, for eight months at different places in Thane.
The police on Thursday arrested 24 youths and detained two minor boys. The five other accused arrested were produced in the Kalyan sessions court on Friday and remanded to police custody till October 30.
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