A 38-year-old Delhi woman is battling for her life at a hospital here after five men allegedly gangraped her for two days and inserted a rod into her private parts. The men abducted her while was returning from Ghaziabad.
The woman was rushed to the hospital after she was found by a roadside, according to Ghaziabad police, four of the accused have been arrested.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) has issued a notice to the Ghaziabad police.
“The Commission was informed that the survivor lives in Nand Nagri in Delhi and had gone to Ghaziabad to participate in her brother’s birthday celebration on October 16. When she was returning at night, four persons kidnapped her in a Scorpio car while waiting for an auto. They took her to an unknown location, where one more person was present,” the NCW notice stated.
DCW chief Swati Maliwal said the attack reminded her of the Nirbhaya case. The woman, a resident of Nand Nagri in Delhi, was found in Ghaziabad “wrapped in a jute bag, with her hands and legs tied and an iron rod inserted in her private part,” the DCW had claimed.
According to Nipun Agarwal, Superintendent of Police, (City-I) Ghaziabad, Nandgram police station received a call on the 112 emergency helpline number at around 3.30 am on October 18, saying a woman was found lying on Ashram road.
He said the police took her to a nearby hospital, but she insisted that she be admitted to a hospital in Delhi. She was then taken to GTB Hospital.
In her statement to the police, the woman said she had been to Gurugram to celebrate her brother’s birthday, a day before the incident.
The SP said in a video posted on Twitter that “initially, she said there were two people but she later said five men raped her. Four of them have been arrested”.
Preliminary investigation has revealed that there is a property dispute between the woman and the accused. That case is already in Karkardooma court.
According to authorities at the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital, the woman’s condition is stable and no internal injury has been found yet.
In a statement, Dr Rajat Jhamb, media spokesperson of GTB Hospital said the woman was admitted to the hospital on Tuesday morning. He said her vitals were stable. “No internal injury found till now. She is under observation and admitted in the gynaecology department,” he said.
Sources at the hospital, however, said there were signs of sexual assault and a “foreign object” was found in her body.