On the night of October 8, a team of the Gujarat Police set off on an unusual hot pursuit – on board a trawler, tearing through the dark sea. Their chase ended 25 nautical miles deep with the arrest of three men wanted in a case of gangrape.

According to the FIR registered at the Navabandar Marine Police station on October 8, the accused, in their 20s, had on October 1 allegedly accosted the victim, a 50-year-old, and gangraped her in a coastal village in Gir Somnath district.

The Gir-Somnath Police, after establishing the identities of the accused, visited the village but couldn’t trace them. “We learnt that the accused usually worked as labourers on fishing trawlers. We gathered that they were on two trawlers and would have been at sea for over two days before we began looking for them

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