Gurugram: The prime accused who allegelly kidnapped and raped a minor woman in a automobile on Sunday was arrested from Chhata in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura on Friday, mentioned police.
Police recognized the suspect as Pankaj Kumar, 22, who was a truck driver. The 15-year-old sufferer and the accused bought acquainted when she and her father had travelled in his truck two months again to succeed in Faridabad after failing to get any transport in a border space.
DCP (central) Usha Devi mentioned that since then the duo had been in contact with one another and the accused got here to satisfy her in Sector 18 in a automobile on Sunday night with two of his pals.
“He had dropped the 2 associates accompanying him close to Chhata and took the sufferer to Vrindavan. Whereas returning, he raped her within the automobile and fled after dropping her close to her residence at 3.30am on Monday,” she mentioned.
The DCP mentioned that different particulars will likely be revealed after additional investigation and questioning of two different suspects who’re but to be arrested to know in the event that they performed any function within the crime.
Police mentioned that they are going to produce Kumar earlier than a courtroom in Faridabad and can take him on remand for an in depth interrogation.
The matter had come to gentle on Monday when the woman’s sister had alerted police alleging gang rape by 4 suspects after being taken away in a automobile.
On foundation of her criticism, an FIR was registered in opposition to unidentified suspects below sections 123 (inflicting damage via poison with intent to commit an offence), 351(3) (felony intimidation by threatening to trigger demise, grievous damage or to impute unchastity to a lady) and 96 (procuration of kid) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanihta and sections 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and 17 (abetment of an offence) of the Safety of Kids from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act at Previous Faridabad police station.
