Close on the heels of brutal gangrape of a married woman in Gurugram, a 35-year-old woman was abducted from IMT Manesar and thrown out of a car in Greater Noida in the wee hours of Tuesday after being allegedly raped for hours by three men as they drove through the National Capital Region, police said.
The woman was found outside ‘Chacha Ka Restaurant’ at Greater Noida’s Golf links, away from where she had been abducted at about 4 am. A passer-by informed the Noida police about the incident after he saw the woman in a dishevelled state. A police team reached the spot and took her to Yatharth Hospital in Greater Noida. She then referred to the Government hospital as it was case of gangrape, said a police official.
Police said that that the woman was abducted from Sohna area in Gurugram around 8.45 pm on Monday and flung out of a moving Swift car several hours later. “Some beer bottles were also found from the spot which indicates that the accused persons were inebriated at the time,” a senior Greater Noida police officer said. “We are in the process of recording her statement,” the officer said.
The woman, who belonged to Bharatpur district in Rajasthan, told the police that she had been walking near her residence in Sohna on Monday night when she was pulled into a car by the unidentified men.
She said they molested her and took turns to rape her in the moving car for at least four to five hours. After driving through Delhi, they reached Greater Noida where they threw her out in a dark spot before escaping.
They also allegedly threatened her with dire consequences if she approached the police. The woman had come to Gurugram some 10 to 15 days back and was staying with her family in Sohna area.
“We have taken the details from SSP Gautambudh Nagar luv Kumar. A team of the Gautambudh Nagar police is arriving in Gurugram to examine the sequence of the crime. We are examining whether they lodged a zero FIR in this regard. We are assisting Noida police and are investigating the matter,” said Gurgugram Police Commissioner Sandeep Khirwar.
The Gurugram police said they received the information about the incident at 4 am. Police Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner of police (east) Deepak Saharan and DCP (crime) Sumit Kuhar, were also present at the Sector 29 police station when the woman recorded her statement in the presence of a woman lawyer.
Police teams are examining the CCTV footage of major roads in the NCR region to get some clues, he added. No arrests have been made as yet. Sources said the role of an auto driver has also been revealed
It may be recalled that on May 29, a woman was allegedly abducted and gangraped in Gurugram’s Manesar area and her nine-month-old baby was smothered and thrown out of the moving auto. She, too, was left on the roadside after about four hours.
The incidents underscores that women continue to be vulnerable in the region, more than four years after the Dec 16, 2012 gangrape and murder of physiotherapy intern. The incident also highlights that police patrolling continues to be poor, particularly during the night in places like Gurugram and Gautambudh Nagar.