The Kandy Police has started an investigation to arrest 07 youths who raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl resident of Aruppala, Kandy.
The police say that this student was raped for the first time in 2021 in a forested area behind a temple in Sirimalwatte, Kandy. Then in April 2022 on the banks of Mahaweli River near a temple in Aruppala, in October 2022 in Dodamwala, Kandy, in July 2023 in Aruppala, Kandy, and in the same month in a temple, this student was repeatedly raped by 07 people.
Investigations have revealed that all these 07 persons have committed this crime by having a love relationship with this student and she has also become a victim of this crime willingly.
Police say that being with a female child under 16 years of age is considered rape. According to that, the police say that they are starting the investigation to arrest these 07 youths.