The Ludhiana police have arrested a woman tutor and her two brothers on the charge of sexually exploiting a minor boy and filming the rapes.

The trio were trying to flee to New Delhi and were at the Ludhiana bus terminus when the police arrested them on Sunday.

They were produced in the court, which remanded them in police custody for two days. Accused Radha, 33, Raghav, 28, and Madhav, 24, have been absconding since October 2014.

Accused tutor Radha (centre) and her brothers (masked) after being taken into police custody in Ludhiana. The trio were trying to flee when police arrested them.

The police on October 19 had booked Radha and her brothers under sections 294 of IPC (obscene acts or words in public), 506 (criminal intimidation), 34 (acts done in furtherance of common intention) and sections 3, 4, 5 (L), 14, 15, 16 and 17 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012.

The complainant’s father had told police that he was a tenant of Radha, who also tutored his 14-year-old son.

One day the boy confided in his father about the entire episode after developing severe stomach ache.

The boy also gave his father the pen-drive, which had explicit video content showing forced intercourse between him and the woman tutor.

The accused woman tutor, according to the boy, allegedly raped him repeatedly for over a year till October 2014.

The police said the accused raped him at knife-point whenever he refused to succumb to her demands.

“She would force him to consume liquor and threatened him with dire consequences whenever he refused her demand. She also shot sexually explicit videos with the help of her brothers.

"Radha had threatened him that she would implicate me in a rape case if he revealed the truth to anybody,” the minor boy’s father alleged in his complaint to the police.

However, the police made no moves against the accused in the matter. They swung into action only after local NGO Bachpan informed the National Child Rights Commission about the police inaction.

The police were forced to book the women and her brothers on October 19.

They raided Radha’s house and seized threat letters written to the boy, ordering him not to divulge the truth to anybody.

The police also recovered a laptop that contained sexually explicit video content. Police claim the video footage showed the sexual exploitation of the boy and the woman indulging in incest with her brothers.