Two suspects arrested over 23-yr-old woman's gang-rape
Ghaziabad, Aug. 22 -- The Ghaziabad police on late Thursday evening arrested two supsects in the alleged gang rape of the 23-year-old speech and hearing-impaired woman in Loni on August 18 night.
Police identified the two suspects as Rohit Kumar, 31, and Vir Singh, alias Bhola, 53. Both are Nithora village residents and married. Both were arrested near Nithora after they sustained a bullet injury to their legs during police's retaliatory fire.
"The two men accepted their involvement in the gang rape. They said they were having drinks at a tubewell, near Nithora village. Seeing the woman walking alone, they asked her where she was going. When she didn't reply, they pulled her to the tubewell area and gang-raped her and later let her off. The section for gang rape will be added now," said DCP (rural zone) Surendra Nath Tiwary.
Officers said that the two suspects were nabbed during a checking operation, and their names also surfaced during electronic surveillance by police in last days. "Hundreds of mobiles from different mobile towers were scanned, and the mobiles of the two suspects were found at the crime scene. During interrogation, they said that they raped the woman between 9pm and 10pm on August 18," said , ACP (Loni circle) Siddharth Gautam. "The two men raped her while the victim unknowingly walked to the tubewell area. Suspect Rohit assaulted her initially, and the second suspect later," the ACP added....
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