Police have arrested five people including two minors for allegedly attempting to rape two minor girls in Dang.

According to the police, two minors, both aged 16, Dilshan Ahmad, 18, of Gadhwa Rural Municipality-6, Suhail Khan, 20, of Gadhwa-5 and 30-year-old Jadib Ali Nau, a permanent resident of Maithawa in Shivaraj Municipality, who currently lives in Gadhwa Rural Municipality-6, have been arrested on charge of attempting to rape two girls aged 12 and 14.

DSP Rajan Kumar Gautam, the spokesperson at the District Police Office, said that the arrests were made after a complaint was filed against the accused persons for attempting to rape the girls on May 28. Gautam said that the girls were taken to a room of one of the boys at Lamahi Municipality-5 where they attempted to commit the crime.

Gautam informed that the District Court has extended the custody of the arrestees for five days and investigations into the matter are underway.