A day after a young woman was abducted in a car from near a prominent shopping mall in neighbouring Gurgaon and gang-raped, the police on Tuesday claimed to have worked out the sensational case with the arrest of five young men.
The accused have been identified as Naveen, Ankit, Rupesh, Mohit and Sunil. Two of their accomplices -- Vinod and Amarjeet -- are absconding. All the accused belong to Madina village of Rohtak in Haryana, the police said.
“All the accused are below 25 years and are matriculate. One of the accused, Amarjeet, works in a spare parts factory in Gurgaon and stays in Rajiv Nagar. The remaining six accused had come to meet him on Sunday and decided to have fun at the shopping mall. They had drinks till late at night at a pub in the shopping mall and saw the victim there. When the victim came out of the mall, they planned to abduct her,” said a senior police officer.
The 23-year-old victim, a resident of Badarpur, accompanied by her teenaged brother hired a taxi for home around 2.30 a.m. and had gone barely 200 metres when the accused, travelling in a Maruti car, waylaid her taxi and forcibly pulled her out. The accused pushed her inside their car and drove straight to Amarjeet's house in Rajiv Nagar where they allegedly took turns to rape her.
Three of them then dumped her near Chhatarpur metro station around 5.30 a.m. and from there the victim reached her home.
The breakthrough in the case came when the police identified the vehicle while scrutinising the closed-circuit television camera footage of the parking lot at the shopping mall and armed with the registration number of the vehicle traced its owner.
Five of the accused were arrested at Basai flyover on Tuesday evening.
The victim had purportedly told the police that she had seen two of the rapists with one of her female co-workers with whom she had an altercation earlier.
Confirming the presence of the accused in the pub with the female co-worker, the police said that she was not connected with the incident.
