New Delhi, Aug. 13 -- Two men - both workers at a privately owned swimming pool in Lampur near north Delhi's Narela - were arrested for allegedly gang-raping two nine-year-old girls and holding them captive overnight at the pool complex, police said on Tuesday. The accused, identified as 37-year-old Anil Kumar and 24-year-old Munil Kumar, worked at MK Swimming Pool near Lampur bus stand located near the city's northern border with Haryana. Police have booked both of them for gangrape, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation, and aggravated sexual assault, investigators privy to the case details said. The horrific crime occurred on August 5 when the two minor girls, both of whom lived with their families at a slum in Bawana, went to the swimming pool near Lampur bus stand without informing their families. According to the complaint filed by one of the victims' mothers, her daughter had been playing at her aunt's house in Bawana when she and two other girls, including a 12-year-old, boarded a bus to the pool. While the 12-year-old girl returned home, the two nine-year-olds went missing overnight. The mother recounted that her daughter returned home around 5am the next day but initially did not disclose the assault. "When I asked her where she was the entire night, she told me that an 'uncle' at the swimming pool had locked her and another girl in a room there. However, but she didn't reveal the rape out of fear," the mother said. The investigator cited above said that the for two days, the traumatised girls remained silent as the accused had allegedly threatened to kill them if they spoke about the assault. It was only on August 7 that one of the girls confided in her aunt. The families immediately approached the Narela police station and a case was registered. The police arrested the two accused on August 10 and recovered critical evidence, DCP Swami said.htc...