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30-year-old woman gangraped by 2 Rly staffers at office room

Staff Reporter

In another incident of Capital shame, a 30-year-old woman was gang-raped by two railway employees in a train lighting hut meant for railway electrical maintenance staff while two others guarded the room on New Delhi railway station premises in the wee hours of Friday.  Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) of Railways, Delhi Police, Harender K Singh said that all the four accused have been held, adding that all the accused are railway employees in the electrical department.

The accused have been identified as  Satish Kumar ( 35),  Vinod Kumar ( 38),  Mangal Chand ( 33) and  Jagdish Chand( 37). The four accused were produced before a court that has sent them to 14 days judicial custody.

“The call was earlier received at PS ODRS at around 2:27 p.m. The staff there checked for the caller but could not find her. Upon contacting her on the given mobile number, it was known that she is standing at PF No. 8-9 of the station.

Immediately, the Station House Officer along with the staff reached platforms 8-9 where he met the victim,” police said. The victim told the officials that she has been separated from her husband for the last one year and is engaged in a court case for divorce. Around two years back, she came in contact with a man through a common friend.

The man told her that he is a railway employee and can arrange a job for her too.

Both of them continued talking on the phone. On July 21, the accused invited her to his house for a party to celebrate his son’s birthday and for buying a new house,  according to the Railways.