A 22-year old woman was allegedly sexually assaulted inside a moving vehicle by four men in Faridabad’s Sector 16 area on Saturday, 13 January, reported The Hindu.
According to the report, the victim had been walking home from work, when a Scorpio carrying four men pulled up beside her. The men allegedly abducted her and raped her for over two hours, as they drove towards Palwal.
According to The Indian Express, three of the offenders took turns to rape her, while the fourth drove the car around the city.
Two have been arrested from Rajasthan's Jurehra, reported ANI.
A 22-year-old girl was kidnapped in a car and was raped by three unknown men on Saturday, injury marks also found on her head and body. The girl was later dropped near a petrol pump in Sikri. An SIT has been constituted for the investigation and an FIR registered.Rajesh Chechi, ACP of Crime Branch, Faridabad told ANI
Following this incident, the Hisar range IG Amit Dillon is going to replace Hanif Qureshi as the Faridabad Police commissioner, say media reports.
According to media reports, Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar has also sought a report of crime against women across the state.
The Faridabad police claim to have been instantly alerted by two different people about the woman’s abduction; one was an eyewitness who saw it happen and the other was the victim’s cousin, who was on a call with her at the time, the report added.
The police deployed several teams to track down the woman’s whereabouts, and security was tightened at the checkpoints. She was finally found near a petrol pump in the Sikri area around 9pm, The Hindu reported.
The incident took place around 7 pm.
The police had initially filed an FIR under Section 365 of the IPC (kidnapping or abducting), at the Old Faridabad police station, based on the complaints registered by her family, reported The Indian Express.
The case has now been transferred to the women’s police station, where additional relevant sections will be added to the FIR, the report added.
As reported by The Hindu, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) headed by Assistant Commissioner of Police (Crime Against Women) Pooja Dabla has been deployed to probe into the matter.
The medical examination of the woman has been conducted, confirming the assault. Her statement before the magistrate has also been recorded. The probe so far has revealed that the culprits were four in number and were not known to the victim. The matter is under investigation.Pooja Dabla told The Hindu
“The victim has registered an FIR. The four accused are not arrested yet, we are examining the CCTV footage,” she told ANI.
In another tragic case, a 15-year old girl from Kurukshetra, Haryana was brutally raped, tortured and murdered by multiple persons last week. Her body was found near the Jind district on Saturday. The victim had suffered over 19 different injuries, the postmortem revealed and her liver had been ruptured.
(With inputs from The Hindu and Indian Express)
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