Delhi Police have arrested two persons in connection with the Safdarjung gang-rape incident of Wednesday. A Class IX student of a public school in South Delhi’s Safdurjung Enclave was gang-raped by three people in a car parked in the lot in Safdarjung Enclave. “Two of the accused, Narender and Rohit, have been arrested from their hideouts in Delhi. The third accused, Tinku, is still on the run,” a senior police officer said on Thursday.
Police said that all the accused are in their 20s. “The incident occurred on Tuesday evening when the three gang-raped the victim in a car. The victim, a resident of Humayurpur village, knew all the three accused,” the officer added. Explaining the sequence of events, the officer said the victim’s friend Rohit asked her on Tuesday evening to accompany him on a drive and she agreed.
“After they reached a certain point, two of his friends joined them in the car. The accused offered her a spiked soft drink. When the girl became dizzy, the accused then drove the car to an isolated parking lot in Pilanji village in South Delhi and raped her. They then dumped her near her house,” police officer said.
The victim, a student of a private school in south Delhi, returned home around 8.30 pm on Tuesday, but was initially too scared to speak of her ordeal. “The victim finally told her parents who encouraged her to file a complaint. The complaint was received on Wednesday,” the officer added.