The Delhi Police has arrested two more person in connection with a 20-year-old woman who was allegedly abducted, gangraped and paraded by her attackers in east Delhi’s Kasturba Nagar.
The accused have been identified as Rakesh (37) and Rajo (40), both residents of Kasturba Nagar. A total 11 persons, including two minors, have been nabbed in Vivek Vihar abduction and sexual assault case. Eight women and three men have been arrested and apprehended, said police.
On Wednesday, a woman was allegedly abducted, gang-raped and paraded by her attackers on the streets of Kasturba Nagar with her hair chopped, face blackened and a shoe garland around her neck.
Preliminary investigations indicated the woman and a boy belonging to the family of the accused were friends.
“The boy committed suicide in November last year and his family is now blaming the victim. They have alleged it was because of her that he took the extreme step. To extract revenge from her, they allegedly abducted her. They wanted to teach her a lesson,” a senior police official had said.
In her complaint to the police, the woman alleged she was abducted by her acquaintances who live near her mother’s place. They took her to their house where they allegedly assaulted her. Besides, they chopped her hair and forcefully made her wear a garland of slippers. They then humiliated her in public by parading her, an official had said.
