The two men suspected of raping a 23-year-old BPO employee in a tourist van late on Saturday night intended to pick up gullible people and rob them, but changed their mind when the unsuspecting girl boarded the van at Bommanahalli, investigations have revealed.
Sunil and Yogesh, both from Chikkamagaluru, told investigators that they decided to attack the lone passenger in the van assuming that she would not reveal the crime to anyone, sources said. They narrated the sequence of events, including how they overpowered and raped the complainant despite her pleadings to be left alone, sources said.
A team of police personnel took the duo on the route that they took on Saturday night to reconstruct the sequence of events. While the girl, who works for a small BPO, boarded the van at Bommanahalli and wanted to be dropped in Madiwala, the suspects took a different route, drove through secluded areas and finally parked the vehicle near a construction site close to Bellandur where they raped her, sources said.
The duo was on Wednesday produced before the 6th Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, who remanded them in 14-day police custody after subjecting them to a medical examination. “We are also verifying their backgrounds to ascertain whether they were involved in similar offences earlier,” a police officer said.
