A 27-year-old woman was allegedly raped and later killed along with her 24-year-old male friend Avijit Paul, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of police Garhwal Range Sanjay Kumar Gunjyal, said on Tuesday.
He said the incident occurred on October 23 when the couple, who hailed from West Bengal but lived in New Delhi, was returning from Tiger Falls, 27 kilometres from Chakrata in Dehradun district.
“They left New Delhi on October 20 but could not be contacted on their mobile phones after October 23. The woman’s father filed a missing persons report in New Delhi’s Saket police station on October 29,” according to the Circle Officer of the Vikas Nagar police station here, Swapn Kishore Singh. On November 6, relatives of the couple reached the Vikas Nagar police station. They told the police that the woman had told them the name of their driver in one of her conversations.
“The Delhi police approached us on November 9. After interrogating driver Raju Das for two days, it was found that he, along with three other friends, had killed the couple and disposed their bodies at two different locations,” Mr. Singh said. All the four accused from Chakrata’s Tugroli village were arrested on Tuesday, Mr. Gunjyal said. “One of them said he raped the woman before she was killed,” Mr. Gunjyal said. While Paul’s body was recovered from Purola in Uttarkashi on October 30, search is on for the woman’s body.
