Haryana Police’s Special Investigating Team (SIT) on Sunday arrested the two main accused in the Rewari gang-rape case from Satnali in Mahendragarh district.

The accused, Pankaj and Manish, were on the run for almost two weeks. Haryana DGP BS Sandhu said with the arrest of Manish and the Armyman, Pankaj, all the key accused allegedly involved in the CBSE topper gangrape case incident, have now been arrested.

The victim, a 19-year-old college girl was abducted and gangraped after being drugged on September 12 while she was on way to a coaching institute. Earlier, the SIT had announced the arrest of third accused, Nishu and two other men — Deendayal, the owner of a tube well room where the crime took place in Mahendragarh, and Sanjeev Kumar, a medical practitioner who had treated the victim.

Both Deendayal and Sanjeev were booked as they did not inform police despite knowing about the crime.

    The victim and her parents had earlier accused police of not taking action and dealing with the matter casually.

The accused live in the same village in Rewari and they knew the woman and her family.

The victim’s family members and a ‘Mahapanchayat’ or conglomeration of several villages in Rewari district, which was convened on Friday, had demanded early arrest of the accused. Last week, traders in Kosli town had also observed a bandh to protest against the gang-rape.

The victim’s mother, while demanding capital punishment for the prime accused, had earlier told the mediapersons that her daughter was in “acute trauma” after the incident.

Doctors who attended on the victim too had said she was in “severe trauma”, though her vital health parameters were said to be stable.

The Haryana police had drawn flak for allegedly not initiating prompt action after the complaint was registered.

After the shunting out of Rewari Superintendent of Police (SP) Rajesh Duggal, a woman assistant sub-inspector had later been suspended over alleged delay in taking action in the gangrape case.