Another juvenile apprehended in Danish tourist gang-rape case

The police have recovered the mobile phone and some books belonging to the victim from the 16-year-old juvenile, who was detained from his house in East Delhi’s Trilokpuri.

January 20, 2014 12:38 pm | Updated November 16, 2021 06:14 pm IST - New Delhi:

One more juvenile has been apprehended by Delhi Police in connection with the gang-rape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist at knife-point near New Delhi railway station on January 14.

The police have recovered the mobile phone and some books belonging to the victim from the 16-year-old juvenile, who was detained from his house in East Delhi’s Trilokpuri on Saturday night.

He was produced before the Juvenile Justice Board which sent him to Sewa Kutir observation home in North-West Delhi, they said.

The police said that he has previously involved in several pick-pocketing and snatching cases.

With this, a total of seven people, two of which are juvenile have been nabbed in the case, they said.

Before this three persons, including a minor, were arrested on Friday in this connection.

The police said that the hunt is now on to nab one more person in the case.

The Danish tourist, who had come to India on January 1, had first gone to Agra and returned to Delhi on January 13 and checked in a Paharganj hotel.

On January 14, she went to visit a museum near Connaught Place but lost her way back to her hotel following which she approached the group of eight vagabonds asking for directions who waylaid her and then robbed and gang-raped her at knife-point for around three hours.

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