Wednesday, April 7, 2010

No arrests in DU girl gangrape case

TIMES NEWS NETWORK


New Delhi: Three days after a Delhi University (DU) student was gangraped by five youths in a flat in Rajiv Chowk in Gurgaon, the cops are yet to make any arrest despite identifying four accused in the case. The girl was picked up by the accused, one of them known to her, from a bus-stop in Bijwasan on Sunday.
    According to the police, the 22-year-old student was on her way to college when she was abducted and raped for over six hours by five men. The police said that they have identified another person on Wednesday but are yet to make any arrest. ‘‘The main accused into the case is still not iden
tified. Teams have been fanned out to different locations and we will soon nab them,’’ said a senior police officer.
    A resident of Bijwasan, the victim is a correspondence student of second year BA. She had to attend a class in South Campus at Dhaula Kuan on Sunday morning. She left her house and was waiting at the bus-stand around 8 am. The girl also told police that she had said no to one of the accused when he had wanted to befriend her. He had then threatened to teach her a lesson, said police.
    Meanwhile, the girl’s family claimed that they are being pressured by the locals in the village to withdraw the case.
    toireporter@timesgroup.com

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