In a major breakthrough, the Haryana police on Monday arrested seven people from Gadhekhedi village for rape and murder of a mentally-challenged woman from Nepal in Rohtak.
In a major breakthrough, the Haryana police on Monday arrested seven people from Gadhekhedi village for rape and murder of a mentally-challenged woman from Nepal in Rohtak.
Ahead of the arrest, the Haryana police on Monday had raised the cash reward to Rs five lakh from Rs one lakh declared earlier for information leading to the arrest of accused involved in the act.
A 28-year-old mentally-challenged woman from Nepal was brutally raped and murdered and her body dumped in a field at a village on the Rohtak-Hisar Highway here.
DGP Y P Singhal along with other senior officers of police had visited the spot and made the announcement of raising the amount of reward money for the person providing information to police.
"We have been able to get certain leads in the case," he said while asserting that these could not be divulged to media.
"Our senior police officers and SIT is working on the leads. The SIT is trying its very best to crack the case and it will be solved very soon," he said.
Haryana ADGP Law and Order Mohammed Akil had on Sunday visited the crime spot and held confabulations with the members of the SIT and other senior police officers.
The victim had been residing with her sister for the past three months and was undergoing treatment at the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences (PGIMS). The victim's sister had lodged a complaint with police on February 1 and on February 4 and the woman's body was recovered from the fields in Akbarpur village with several injury marks on it, Rohtak Superintendent of Police Shashank Anand had said.
Meanwhile, activists of different social organisations, including Nepali, met the Deputy Commissioner here seeking justice for the family members of victim.
The Congress delegation apprised the governor about "lawlessness" in the state.
The post-mortem report of the woman mentioned several injuries on her private parts, doctors of PGIMS said, adding that stones and blades were also found in her body.
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