Just three weeks after the rape of a BPO employee shook the city, a teenage girl was allegedly gang-raped in a moving car by four men who abducted her after she protested against lewd remarks being passed at her.
In the fourth such incident here within the span of a month, an 18-year-old girl was abducted and raped allegedly by a group of youths in outer Delhi after she protested against lewd remarks being passed at her.
Two youths - Rama (28) and Chanderpal (23) - allegedly raped her in a secluded locality in Mongolpuri last night while two others - Manish (25) and a 15-year-old boy - helped them in abducting her.
"All the four persons have been apprehended. We located the girl inside the car used for her abduction along with two men at around 12:30 am," Chhaya Sharma, deputy commissioner of Police (Outer), told reporters here.
The men appeared to have consumed alcohol during the incident and investigators have seized beer cans from the car.
After getting a call about her abduction, around 600-700 policemen surveyed six police station areas for about two hours before they could locate the victim and arrest two of the suspects. By 5 am, the other two who were part of the abduction were apprehended.
The victim along with her neighbour Ravi was going to fetch her mother from a factory when the incident took place near her house in Sultanpuri at around 10:20 pm.
"The four men allegedly passed some lewd comments to which the girl protested. An argument ensued and the girl snatched factory keys from her neighbour and threw at the car which damaged a window-pane," Sharma said.
The men asked her to compensate for the damage and the argument continued. Enraged at this, the men forced her into the car and drove away, she said.
According to the girl, the men argued with her for compensation inside the car and after around an hour, the minor boy and Manish got out of the car. She was then taken to a secluded place in Mongolpuri where she was allegedly raped.
According to police, the neighbour Ravi informed the police control room at 10:24 pm but could not provide the registration number of the vehicle.
Later at 11:05 pm, Ravi made another call to PCR after a tent owner who was at the spot gave him the number of the vehicle which abducted the girl.
Asked about taking two hours to rescue the victim, Sharma sought to defend the force and said specific information was not provided to police.
"Initially, he told us that it was an Esteem car but later said it was a long car. The specific information about the vehicle was given at 11:05 pm," she said claiming that the first information was that it took place in Aman Vihar.
She said 'Operation Black Rose', the standard operation procedure adopted during such incidents, was put in place and all beat constables were asked to search inside lanes as the culprits may not be taking main stretches.
"A constable noticed the car and alerted us. We apprehended two men and rescued the girl," she said.
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