Ahmedabad, June 14: Cracking the whip, Gujarat government transferred Surat Commissioner of Police Deepak Swaroop as the protests against the the gang rape case became shriller and widespread and several outfits including VHP calling for a bandh on Monday. It is believed that a statement of Swaroop has cost him dear.
He had said that the victim girl was in compromising position and the three youth took undue advantage of this. They posed themselves as police and made both sit in the car and gang raped the 17 year old girl. This was stated by the girl in her complaint of gang rape.
It is worth mentioning here that the three accused in the case were thrashed in a civil hospital on Saturday in the city where they were taken for medical examination.
Crowds attacked two of the three youths, repeatedly kicking and punching them. The three men allegedly waylaid a 17-year-old girl, who was on her way to a tuition class, and pulled her inside the Maruti Car and allegedly raped her. Later they dumped her on the outskirts of the city on Friday.
It is worth mentioning here that the rape incident came to light on Friday. After the incident the police said that the three men, in their 30s, waited for the girl at a bus stop near the Regional Transport Office (RTO) on Friday morning.
As she walked out her home to attend the class at Rander Nagar, near the RTO, the men overpowered the girl and forced her into the car and fled the area.
The girl was repeatedly raped in the moving car and later dumped at the Piplod road locality.
The badly bruised girl called up her parents from a telephone booth and narrated her tale of woe to them. Her parents and relatives reached the spot and took her to a government hospital for treatment after informing the police.
Medical examination confirmed that the girl was raped. She is the niece of a noted psychologist of Surat.
–Agencies