Five held for abducting, raping woman in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj

Five persons including two drivers from an app-based cab service have been arrested for abducting a 30-year-old woman and later gang-raping her at a guest house in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj. The five accused identified as Tejvir Singh, Gopal Prasad, Roopinder, Anshul and Ram Babu were arrested on Tuesday following the complaint of the woman.

According to the police, the incident took place late on Sunday night when the woman walked out of Sahara mall in Gurugram around 11 pm. The woman told the police that she was trying to catch an auto outisde the mall when the men in a car came near her and offered to drop her home. The woman in her complaint told the police that when she resisted, one of them dragged her by her hand and pulled her into the car.

Later they took her to a guest house where they took turns to rape her for over three hours. The accused later latched the room door from outside. "The woman cried for help and then a staffer unlatched the door. One of the accused who saw this rushed back to the room, meanwhile the girl picked up an instrument and hit him on his head and managed to flee. Later, she called up a friend and in the wee hours on Monday managed to reach the police station to inform file a complaint," said a police official.

"A case under appropriate sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered and five of the accused men were arrested on Tuesday," said Milind Mahadeo Dumbre, DCP, South-West.