Over a week after a woman was gang-raped and her six-month-old daughter murdered in Manesar, the Gurugram Police on Wednesday claimed to have cracked the case with the arrest of two of the accused. Another accused in the case has been identified but is absconding, said the police.
Gurugram Police Commissioner Sandeep Khirwar said that one of the accused, Yogender, was arrested from a hideout in Gurugram. Another accused, Amit, was arrested a few hours later from the city. Mr. Khirwar said that efforts are on to arrest the third, identified as Jai Kesh.
All three men belong to Bulandshahr in Uttar Pradesh and had recently migrated to Gurugram. They were staying in the victim’s village in Manesar, said Mr. Khirwar. He said the accused corroborated the sequence of events as told by the victim.
After a fight with the neighbours, the victim had left her home to go to her parents’ place around 11.30 p.m. on May 29.
She first boarded a mini-truck from outside her village but got down from the vehicle after travelling for a few hundred metres suspecting the intentions of the driver. She then boarded an auto-rickshaw, which already had two male passengers apart from the driver. They first drove towards her parents’ village, but suddenly took a U-turn and changed the route. They parked the vehicle at a secluded place in Manesar and allegedly took turns to rape the woman.
