India, July 25 -- Two brothers, aged 60 and 58, have been arrested on Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district on charges of repeatedly raping a 15-year-old girl who visited the ashram where they worked, police said on Friday.

Police said the two men, along with an accomplice, recently threatened to bury live the girl to force her to go for an abortion. The girl managed to escape and told her family about the rape who filed a police complaint.

Police identified the two brothers, who were subsequently arrested, as Bhagyadhar Das (60) and Panchanan Das (58), who worked as a cook and pujari respectively at an ashram in the district's Kujang block. Police said the rape survivor had come across the two during her visits to the ashram and the two rape...