A day after the arrest of one of the main accused in the gangrape of a 15-year-old girl in South-east Delhi’s Jamia Nagar area, police said on Sunday that they have sent their teams to Moradabad, Bjinor, Amroha and other neighbouring districts to nab the other accused in the case.
Talking to The Pioneer, Romil Baaniya, Deputy Commissioner of Police (South-east), said, “We have identified the accused in the gang-rape case. Arrests will be made soon.”
A senior police officer, privy to the investigation, said based on the initial interrogation of Sajid, police have sent their teams across various cities in Uttar Pradesh to nab the other accused at the earliest. The officer said, "Assuming that the cases of attempt to murder of the 47-year-old woman and the gang-rape of 15-year-old were committed by the same set of persons, we have sent out teams to the above mentioned places."
A senior police official said, "Sajid (36) was arrested from Bijnor district of Uttar Pradesh during a raid late Friday night and was brought to Delhi. He confessed to the crime.”
The rape victim's mother had lodged a complaint at Jamia Nagar Police Station on December 11 alleging that her 15-year-old daughter was raped for over a period of six months.
The accused had also filmed the act and threatened to upload it on the Internet if the girl disclosed the crime to anyone. The victim who was three-month pregnant when she told her mother about it, who had then approached police through an NGO.
On Friday morning, the rape victim's mother was shot at by unidentified assailants, which she was taking her daughter to a hospital for routine check-up.
She who has underwent a surgergy at AIIMS Trauma Centre is stated out of danger.
The victim's family alleged that they were being pressurised by the accused and also getting death threats to withdraw the complaint, even as police said it is to be investigated whether the two cases are linked.