A 30-year-old woman was allegedly gang raped by five men including two Ola cab drivers in Southwest Delhi’s Vasant Kunj area on Sunday night. The men abducted the woman and later gang-raped her at a guest house in South Delhi’s Vasant Kunj. The five accused identified as Tejvir Singh, Gopal Prasad, Roopinder, Anshul and Ram Babu were arrested on Tuesday following the complaint of the woman.
According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday night when the woman walked out of Sahara mall in Gurugram around 11. pm. The woman told the police that she was trying to catch an auto outside the mall when the men in a car came near her and offered to drop her home. The woman in her complaint told the police that when she resisted, one of them dragged her by her hand and pulled her into the car.
later they took her to a guest house where they took turns to rape her for over three hours. The accused later latched the room door from outside. “The woman cried for help and then a staffer unlatched the door. One of the accused who saw this rushed back to the room, meanwhile the girl picked up an instrument and hit him on his head and managed to flee. later, she called up a friend and in the wee hours on Monday managed to reach the police station to inform file a complaint,” said a police official.
“A case under appropriate sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered and five of the accused men were arrested on Tuesday,” said the senior police officer.
A senior investigator said that the accused locked her in a PG room at Vasant Kunj and raped her after which they left.
The girl was shouting for help hearing which the cook of that building opened it. But one man present at the PG tried to stop her from fleeing. However, the woman picked up an iron rod and hit him on his head and ran away. She then called her common friend and they went to police station after which an FIR of kidnapping cum gangrape was lodged and all the five were arrested from the area.