A woman construction worker was allegedly gangraped by a contractor and three labourers in Jobner area in the district, police said.

The husband of the 24-year-old woman lodged an FIR against contractor Chenaram, and Mohan, Jagdish and Gopal for raping his wife few days ago, Deputy SP Rajpal Singh said.

The victim yesterday narrated the incident to her husband, who is a construction worker at a different site, following which the FIR was lodged at Jobner police station, Singh said.

He said the matter was being probed and no arrest was made so far.

—PTI

The second accused in the alleged gang-rape of a five-year-old girl was today sent to four-day police custody by a city court which was told by the Delhi Police that both he and accomplice Manoj had raped the minor.

Additional Sessions Judge Sanjay Garg remanded 19-year- old Pradeep, who was arrested from Bihar yesterday and brought here on transit remand, to police custody till April 27 after the police said he had to be interrogated to unearth the sequence of events.

Amid high security, Pradeep was brought to the court in muffled face.

A joint team of MP and Bihar police have failed to arrest the accused involved in allegedly raping a 5-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh and it is suspected that he might have fled to Nepal taking advantage of the porous border, police said on Tuesday.

The minor, who was allegedly raped on April 17, is at present battling for life in a hospital in Nagpur.

After search for the accused, Firoz Khan (35) in Banka, failed to yield result, the joint police team visited neighbouring Supual district on Indo-Nepal border tracking mobile phone signals, SP Pushkar Anand told PTI.

The condition of the 5-year-old rape survivor in Delhi is stable and she is still on a semi-solid diet, said doctors treating her at AIIMS. Her fever has subsided and she is more alert and active. S team of psychiatrists are counselling the 5-year old.

“She has had a good breakfast. Her fever has come down. And she is afebrile (not feverish) now. Her colostomy is functioning normally,” Dr DK Sharma, Medical Superintendent of AIIMS, said in a medical bulletin. “The five-year-old female child is recovering as expected. She is active and taking adequate liquids and semi-solid food,” he said.

CBI has frozen bank accounts of former Indian Air Force chief SP Tyagi and other Indians named as accused for allegedly receiving kickbacks in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP helicopter deal.

Agency sources said here today that “certain bank accounts of all the Indian accused” named in the FIR have been frozen by CBI.

The bank accounts of Indian companies named in the alleged scam–Aeromatrix Info Solutions Private Limited and IDS Infotech–have already been frozen by the agency, they said.

State Industrial Infrastructure Corporation (APIIC) officials today appeared before the CBI in connection with the YS Jagan Mohan Reddy Disproportionate Assets (DA) case.

Earlier, Revenue Department officials were called to give statements as the case involves land allotments to industrialists.

APIIC is the facilitator to industries and helps entrepreneurs set up industries. The allegation was that the Corporation has overlooked the policy matters and large extent of land was allotted to some business houses at a cheaper price.