Bhubaneswar, Aug. 29: An 18-year-old girl who was gang-raped in a moving vehicle in June this year was today called to the office of the deputy commissioner of police (DCP) here as police were in the process of finalising the chargesheet in the case.

Officials in the DCP’s office said she had been called, as some work in finalising the chargesheet was pending. “This was not the first time she has come. She had come several times in the past. Today we called her for final supervision of the chargesheet,” said an official.

The girl, who came to the DCP’s office with her sister and brother-in-law, spent more than three hours there.

The gang-rape was reported in Mahila Police station on August 13, three days after the incident occurred.

The case had rocked the city as the girl had been raped by two persons who were known to her and the crime had been committed in a moving vehicle. The rapists had given her a lift while she was waiting for a bus at Master Canteen Square. She had been waiting to take the bus to her sister’s house in Phulanakhara on the evening of August 10.

In her complaint, the girl had mentioned that the accused duo — Manoranjan Sahu (35) and Ajay Malia (36) — had even recorded the incident on their mobile phones and had threatened to kill her if she told anyone.

“When I boarded their vehicle, they drove the SUV into a lane towards Old Town instead of going to Phulanakhara that is on the outskirts of the city. In the moving vehicle, they outraged my modesty one after another and video-recorded it. Late in the evening, they dropped me near my sister’s house,” the girl had said.

The rapists were later arrested by the Cuttack-Bhubaneswar police and are now lodged in Jharapada special jail.

Sahu, a land dealer in Cuttack, and Malia, a poultry businessman in Unit IV in Bhubaneswar, were known to the girl’s brother-in-law and had come to his house where they had met with the girl. Police seized the vehicle and the mobile phones of the accused.

The girl, a Plus Two pass-out and native of Pipli, had identified the accused in a test identification parade held in the jail in the presence of the judicial magistrate fast track, Janakar Rout, on August 23.

The matter had become even murkier, as the girl’s father alleged that the girl’s “so-called brother-in-law” was trying to push her into prostitution. The girl later said that her father had brought such allegation under pressure.