Two days after a 23-year-old woman was gang-raped, police claimed that one of the accused in the case is a minor (14) studying at a school in Rohtak district. So far, six out of the seven accused have been arrested. Amarjeet, who had rented the room where the victim was raped, was nabbed on Wednesday.
DCP (crime), Maheshwar Dayal, confirmed that cops have identified the seventh accused – the minor – and would arrest him soon.
Amarjeet had fled from his room in Rajiv Nagar early on Tuesday morning when he came to know that police were on the lookout for him and his friends. On Wednesday evening, DLF-II SHO Jangsher Singh raided several places with crime branch cops and picked up Amarjeet from Gurgaon.
Earlier in the day, the five accused who had been arrested on Monday were produced before a city court and sent to two days’ police remand. During preliminary interrogation, they confessed that they were drunk and had planned to kidnap the woman as soon as they spotted her outside the mall. One of the accused told police that after bringing her to the Rajiv Nagar room first two men raped the victim. When the woman began to shout, they threatened her with dire consequences. They also threatened her of calling more friends to the room if she resisted. Finally, she succumbed to the pressure.
Recalling the horror, the victim’s brother said that he had approached a policeman on MG Road early on Monday morning. “He took the details of the car and told me that he would follow the vehicle. But he returned and took my sister’s mobile number,” the boy said.