Rayagada: Providing an offer for overnight shelter to a couple, a youth allegedly raped the woman in Rayagada on Tuesday evening. Acting on a complaint filed by the husband, the Rayagada police have detained the accused and are questioning him.

According to reports, the couple, migrant workers, had returned to Rayagada from Tamil Nadu by train earlier in the evening. Around 8 p.m., while they were waiting at the Rayagada bus stand to travel to their village under Bandhugaon block in Koraput district, an unknown youth approached them.

The youth advised the couple not to stay at the bus stand at night, warning them of possible robbery, and offered to shelter them at his house in Coal Sahi, Rayagada town. During their conversation, the couple learned that he belonged to the same commun

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