The Commissionerate police on Friday said the deceased middle-aged tribal woman, whose mutilated body was retrieved from an abandoned house at a deserted place in a CDA slum area under the Markatnagar police station here on Thursday evening, was a victim of gangrape and murder. It was also revealed that the injured youth who was lying unconscious near the woman’s body and later sent for medical attention, is one of the co-accused of the crime.
Speaking to reporters after 24 hours of the incident, city DCP S Praveen Kumar said the medical examination and the postmortem report indicated that the 45-year-old victim was gangraped and later strangulated to death by the accused. “Two persons are arrested in this connection and they have confessed to the guilt,” the DCP said, ruling out any further arrests in this connection.
The DCP said the victim along with one accused Satyabrata Naik (35) and his wife had consumed handia on Wednesday morning. Heavily intoxicated, the victim fell down injuring her head. She was then taken to a Government hospital by Naik and another accused Sashi Mandei alias Singh for treatment.
After treatment, when they were returning to their slum, Naik and Mandei took the woman to the abandoned house and raped her one after another in the afternoon. “When the victim protested, they killed her strangulating with her sari,” the DCP said.
Mandei, however, sustained injury in his tongue when he fell down while running away from the spot after committing the crime. “His tongue came between his teeth injuring it grievously,” the police said, adding that his condition is now stable and the tongue has not been severed as reported earlier. “Both the accused will be forwarded to court on Saturday,” the DCP informed.