A 25-year-old woman was gang-raped, brutally assaulted and thrown out of the moving car on the Gurugram-Faridabad Road earlier this week. The survivor is admitted to the Intensive Care Unite (ICU) of a private hospital in the city where she is undergoing treatment for multiple fractures and deep wounds, HT reported earlier.
The case reportedly took place in the early hours of Tuesday on the winding, little populated Gurgaon-Faridabad, news agency PTI reported, citing police officials.
The survivor's condition is said to be critical and she is not in a position to give a statement, as per the PTI report, adding that the two accused, one from Uttar Pradesh and the other from Madhya Pradesh, were arrested and produced in a city court on Wednesday. They have been sent into judicial custody.
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Two suspects, aged between 25 and 30, were apprehended on Tuesday and were formally arrested later. The crime branch has recovered the Eeco van used in the crime, and forensic samples have been collected from the vehicle, the survivor, and the accused.
Blood samples of the accused have been taken to determine if they were intoxicated during the assault. Police plan to conduct a test identification parade once the survivor is discharged from the hospital.
A case of gang rape was registered at Kotwali police station on Tuesday based on the statement of the survivor's sister.
Investigators revealed that the crime took advantage of poor visibility due to dense fog on the isolated road. A police official, privy to the investigation, said that the suspects had stopped the van at a secluded spot where they gang-raped her. “While one of them raped her inside the van, the other stood guard outside. After this they brought her back to the city and threw her out of the speeding van,” he said.
(With inputs from HT correspondent, agencies)
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