Nine persons, of total 23, have been arrested for raping a 19-year-old woman in Uttar Pradesh's Varansai. Additional Commissioner of Police, Cantonment, Vidush Saxena said police is searching for all accused who gang-raped the woman in the span of six days, nine have been arrested so far and others will be nabbed soon. As per the police, the victim was drugged and taken to several hotels where she was raped by 23 persons.
"Police teams are conducting searches to nab the other accused and they will be arrested soon," ACP Saxena said. The survivor's family members refused to talk to the media. "Whatever information you want, you can talk to the police and take it from the police station," the rape survivor's mother was quoted by PTI saying this. Officials said the victim had gone out with some youths on March 29.
23 persons allegedly gang-raped the victim
On April 4, the victim's family filed a complaint when she did not return home. She was missing since March 29. When rescued by the police, the woman did not mention about the rape, the police had earlier informed. Survivor's family, on April 6, filed an official complaint alleging that their daughter had been gang-raped. A case was registered against 12 named and 11 unnamed persons under relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), the police said.
The named accused have been identified as Raj Vishwakarma, Sameer, Ayush, Sohail, Danish, Anmol, Sajid, Zahir, Imran, Jaib, Aman and Raj Khan. The woman told the police that between March 29 and April 4, the accused allegedly took her to many hotels and hookah bars and gang-raped her, the officer said.
The woman's mother in her complaint said that her daughter had gone to her friend's house on March 29. "On the way back home, she met a boy named Raj Vishwakarma, who took her to his cafe in Lanka, where Raj and his other friend did 'bad acts' with her. The next day my daughter met a boy named Sameer, who was on a bike with one of his friends," victim's mother said in her complaint.
Woman was intoxicated
Sameer took her on the bike to a highway and did a 'bad act' with her on the bike and left the girl at Nadesar," the victim claimed. As per the details shared by her, a boy named Ayush along with his five other friends named Sohail, Danish, Anmol, Sajid and Zahir took her to Continental Cafe in Sigra on March 31. They made her drink intoxicants and raped her one by one. On April 1, a boy named Sajid along with his friend took her to a hotel, where two-three other people were present.
"There, a man raped her and then threw her out. As she was leaving the place, she met a boy named Imran on the way, who also raped her in a hotel after making her drink intoxicants. Later, when the girl screamed, he left her outside the hotel," the mother had alleged in her complaint to the police. On April 2, Raj Khan allegedly took her to the roof of his house in Hukulganj, where he tried to rape her after drugging her. When the woman screamed, they took her to Assi Ghat in an intoxicated state and left her there, her mother alleged in the complaint.
On April 3, Danish allegedly took her to his friend's room where Sohail, Shoaib and some other accused allegedly drugged and raped her daughter. Later, they left her near Chowkghat. Her daughter came home the next day and told them about her ordeal, the complainant said.
(PTI inputs)
