Following the incident, various organisations, including students and women's bodies, in Tripura staged protests on Thursday and demanded stringent action against the accused.
"An incident of alleged gang rape of two girls has been reported under Gomati district on May 11. Gomati Police arrested the accused within 6 Hours," an official statement said.
Notably, according to a government advocate (who wish his name not to be quoted), of these accused three have converted from Hindu to Muslim which includes Mohammad Salim (earlier Saurabh Raj Vaidhy), Abdur Rahman (earlier Devi Narayan Panda) and Mohd Abbas Ali (earlier Benu Kumar).
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday registered a case against several people, including officials of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Assam, accused of siphoning off hefty sums meant to benefit employees, by generating fake slips for physiotherapy.
Delhi's Patiala House Court has put up for consideration the chargesheet filed against two persons under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA).
Earlier the accused Sandeep was taken into police custody from his house on Tuesday night after a brawl with his neighbours. He was brought to the government hospital by Police for a mandatory medical checkup when he turned violent.
The seizure was made following raids conducted on Wednesday. NIA had raided several properties of the accused and suspects, mostly houses and offices, as part of its continuing investigations in the case.
After a low-intensity blast took place in the vicinity of the Golden Temple in Punjab's Amritsar in the early hours of Thursday, Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee chief Harjinder Singh Dhami accused the state government of being a "total failure" in preventing such incidents.
The NIA carried out searches at the hideouts of suspects in the case which was taken over by the anti-terror agency almost a month ago and it started its probe charging the "highly radicalised" arrested accused Shahrukh Safi.
Analysts raised concerns as the journalist has been allegedly accused of illegally supplying state secrets overseas, a charge that carries a possible sentence of between five years to life in prison, CNN reported.