New Delhi | Jan. 6: A 24-year-old MBA student who had gone to a shopping mall with her friend was waylaid by 10 youth, taken to a desolate spot and gangraped in Noida around 5 pm on Monday.
While some of the youth dragged the girl, a resident of Lajpat Nagar, out of the car, others kept her friend, Amit Pawar, pinned to the ground. The men then took turns raping the victim. This is the second case of kidnapping and sexual assault in Noida within 48 hours.
The police managed to arrest five of the youth. The others were still at large. Those arrested, undergraduates in their early 20s, belonged to the families of local farmers. They were identified as Husain, Srikant, Sanjay, Sudhir and Gautam. The police recovered cricket bats, a cricket kit and stumps and three mobile phones from them.
Sanjay, one of the accused, claimed one of their friends saw the girl and the man inside the car in an intimate position. "We were 10 people. We were returning after playing cricket. One of us saw the girl and the boy inside the car and then we forced ourselves inside the car in turns to attack her," he was quoted as telling reporters.
The victim and her batchmate Pawar, a resident of Hauz Khas, had gone to the Great India Place shopping complex (opposite Noida’s Sector 18) and were returning in the victim’s Maruti WagonR when, at around 5 pm, they were waylaid by 10 youth riding motorcycles nearly a kilometre from the complex.
The attackers, who were carrying a cricket kit, bats and stumps, forced their way into the car and then drove towards a "jungle" not very far from the complex where they allegedly raped the girl. They also beat up the victim’s friend.
After a couple of hours the young men left the victim and her friend at the same spot, but took away their mobile phones. The victim’s friend later found his way to the Sector 39 police station and narrated the incident. A complaint was finally lodged around at 1.30 am.
It was learnt that the young men had been returning from a cricket match and spotted the couple sitting in the car at Pushta Parthala, a "bund" near Sector 58. Finding them alone and defenceless, they took her to the nearby fields and raped her.
On Tuesday morning the police began hunting local boys playing cricket. "The victims had told us that the accused were carrying cricket bats and a cricket kit. This morning we went through the local teams and traced the accused to Garhi Chaukhandi village to which where they all belonged," said superintendent of police (Noida City) Ashok Tripathi. Mr Tripathi said a test identification parade would be carried out on Wednesday. The medical report of the victim is awaited.
On Sunday, a Delhi University girl was abducted when she had gone shopping with her mother at the Sunday Bazar in Noida’s Sector 58. The kidnappers abandoned her around 2 am near Bhopura crossing in Ghaziabad. The kidnappers are still at large.
Monday evening’s incident highlights the fact that Uttar Pradesh is among the most unsafe states for women in the country. According to figures compiled by the National Commission for Women and presented in the Lok Sabha, this past December UP registered 2,381 cases of crime against women, including rape, torture for dowry, and harassment, the highest in the country.
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Source: The Asian Age
While some of the youth dragged the girl, a resident of Lajpat Nagar, out of the car, others kept her friend, Amit Pawar, pinned to the ground. The men then took turns raping the victim. This is the second case of kidnapping and sexual assault in Noida within 48 hours.
The police managed to arrest five of the youth. The others were still at large. Those arrested, undergraduates in their early 20s, belonged to the families of local farmers. They were identified as Husain, Srikant, Sanjay, Sudhir and Gautam. The police recovered cricket bats, a cricket kit and stumps and three mobile phones from them.
Sanjay, one of the accused, claimed one of their friends saw the girl and the man inside the car in an intimate position. "We were 10 people. We were returning after playing cricket. One of us saw the girl and the boy inside the car and then we forced ourselves inside the car in turns to attack her," he was quoted as telling reporters.
The victim and her batchmate Pawar, a resident of Hauz Khas, had gone to the Great India Place shopping complex (opposite Noida’s Sector 18) and were returning in the victim’s Maruti WagonR when, at around 5 pm, they were waylaid by 10 youth riding motorcycles nearly a kilometre from the complex.
The attackers, who were carrying a cricket kit, bats and stumps, forced their way into the car and then drove towards a "jungle" not very far from the complex where they allegedly raped the girl. They also beat up the victim’s friend.
After a couple of hours the young men left the victim and her friend at the same spot, but took away their mobile phones. The victim’s friend later found his way to the Sector 39 police station and narrated the incident. A complaint was finally lodged around at 1.30 am.
It was learnt that the young men had been returning from a cricket match and spotted the couple sitting in the car at Pushta Parthala, a "bund" near Sector 58. Finding them alone and defenceless, they took her to the nearby fields and raped her.
On Tuesday morning the police began hunting local boys playing cricket. "The victims had told us that the accused were carrying cricket bats and a cricket kit. This morning we went through the local teams and traced the accused to Garhi Chaukhandi village to which where they all belonged," said superintendent of police (Noida City) Ashok Tripathi. Mr Tripathi said a test identification parade would be carried out on Wednesday. The medical report of the victim is awaited.
On Sunday, a Delhi University girl was abducted when she had gone shopping with her mother at the Sunday Bazar in Noida’s Sector 58. The kidnappers abandoned her around 2 am near Bhopura crossing in Ghaziabad. The kidnappers are still at large.
Monday evening’s incident highlights the fact that Uttar Pradesh is among the most unsafe states for women in the country. According to figures compiled by the National Commission for Women and presented in the Lok Sabha, this past December UP registered 2,381 cases of crime against women, including rape, torture for dowry, and harassment, the highest in the country.
Source: The Asian Age
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