Gurugram gangrape: 1 accused arrested, sketches of 3 others released

Gurugram Gangrape: A case has been filed against unknown persons. All the accused are absconding. The police are currently investigating the matter.

Gurugram: In the latest development in the horrifying gang-rape case of a 23-year-old woman in Manesar, one person has been arrested by Gurugram Police on Wednesday.Police also released sketches of three other accused. The nabbed accused also confessed to committing crime.  Awoman was gang raped by three men after throwing her nine-month-old daughter off an auto rickshaw leading to the child's death here last week. The incident comes weeks after a Nirbhaya-like case in Sonipat, where a girl was gang-raped and later mutilated as a revenge for refusing marriage proposal, and a Sikkim girl was gang-raped in a moving car in Gurugram. The victim is a resident of Bass Kusla village near IMT Manesar. She said in her complaint to police that the incident took place on May 29 midnight when she was going to her parents' house in Khandsa village with her daughter after an argument with her husband. She took a lift in an autorickshaw in which three persons were already sitting. She told the police that the accused started molesting her as soon as she sat in the vehicle. She alleged that three men in an auto-rickshaw sexually assaulted her on the old Khandsa road in Gurugram, close to the Delhi-Gurugram expressway. As she resisted and her daughter started crying, they threw the infant out of the vehicle. The child succumbed to injuries. "The men in an auto-rickshaw offered me a lift and after a while, started molesting me. When I objected, one of them threw my daughter on the ground after which she died and I was sexually assaulted," the woman said in her complaint. "Earlier, we had registered a case under relevant sections of murder, molestation and common intent against unknown persons after the woman refused to undergo medical examination. Now, she is alleging gang rape. We are investigating it further," a senior police officer told IANS. An official said that the woman, a resident of a village near IMT Manesar here, had initially told the police that the accused had thrown her child out of the autorickshaw. However, later she told them that she was raped also by the three. A case has been filed against unknown persons. All the accused are absconding. The police are currently investigating the matter. "A case of murder and sexual assault has been registered. We are investigating the matter as woman alleging gangrape has refused to undergo medical examination," a senior police officer said. A special investigating team has been formed to probe the matter further. Notably, the latest incident comes close on the heels of another incident in which two women were allegedly raped at Yamunanagar and Ambala in Haryana, police said. Two horrific incidents of rape also shook Haryana last month. While the body of a 23-year-old woman, who had been gang-raped and murdered, was found on the outskirts of Rohtak, a 26-year-old was gang-raped in a moving car in Gurgaon and abandoned in a semi-conscious state near her house. (With inputs from agencies)