THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Provisions of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) would be slapped on the accused arrested for gang-raping a woman by her husband and his friends after making her drink liquor forcibly. The incident happened in front of her five-year-old child. The child will be made a witness in the case. The accused were taken into custody on the initial statement of the woman. Meantime, the arrest of the accused will be recorded only tomorrow after registering the woman’s secret statement, said rural SP Ashok. According to police, seven are in custody.

The shocking incident happened the other day near the Kadinamkulam police station. The woman fled the place, stopped a car on the road and sought help. They dropped her at her house. The youths who were in the car said that she was crying while requesting help. She soon got into the car and narrated the story to them. There were some marks on her face, they said.