Panchkula: 22-year-old woman held captive, gangraped by 40 men for four days narrates her ordeal
Panchkula, July 20: Shocking details have emerged in the horrific gangrape of a 22-year-old woman who was held captive at a guesthouse here for four days. While the sheer brutality of the crime has sent shockwaves across the country, the case has pointed fingers at the Haryana police's approach towards such incidents of crimes against women.
According to reports, the victim was working as a maintenance worker at the guest house on the city outskirts where she was held captive for four days and raped allegedly by 40 men. In her complaint, the victim has stated that she was restrained to a room in the guest house for four days before she managed to escape. In fact, the victim claims that upon escaping her captors, she approached the Panchkula police with a complaint against the accused and was thrown out by the station in-charge.
It was only after media reports highlighted her ordeal that the Commissioner of Chandigarh took note of the case and ordered a high-level inquiry. Latest inputs assert that the station in-charge has been suspended pending a probe into the alleged insensitiveness displayed by the police force. Based on the victim's complaint, Chandigarh police have arrested three men and are expected to nab others involved in the gangrape soon. Shockingly, the commissioner of Panchkula has even confirmed that the guest house where the crime was perpetrated is an illegal establishment and was not registered with either civic bodies or local police.
Investigating officers have told Mirror Now that a medical examination of the victim has already been undertaken and her statement has been recorded under Section 164 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) before a magistrate. Chandigarh police are building a watertight case against all of the accused who are expected to be taken into custody very soon.
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Explosion near CRPF School in Delhi caused by lit cigarette butts: Report
New Delhi: The investigation team that probed the explosion that took place outside the CRPF School in the Prashant Vihar area of the city on October 20 morning has reportedly not found any terror force behind the blast.
The investigation team, consisting of Delhi Police and staff members from central agencies, has stated in its report that cigarette butts thrown by a local resident might have come in contact with industrial waste and have caused the explosion. Circumstantial evidence does not show the incident to have a terror angle to it, reports The Indian Express.
The Delhi Police, the city bomb squad and the fire brigade had rushed to the spot following the explosion, which was initially believed to have been caused by a crude bomb. The forensic experts who inspected the spot hinted at the presence of potassium chlorate, hydrogen peroxide and some electrical wires there. The school wall had been damaged and the windows of a car nearby had shattered in the explosion.
The investigation team scanned the CCTV camera footage and zeroed in on around 10 people questioned. A senior police officer said that a North Delhi-based businessman from Prashant Vihar was found to be present at the spot around five minutes before the explosion, as he had come there on Sunday morning to walk his dog. The CCTV footage showed him smoking and, after questioning him, the team concluded that he had left lit cigarette butts before leaving the spot, the officer added.
The spot where the explosion took place is learned to have been usually used for dumping garbage and also has a public urinal.
An officer has said that the Delhi Police had consulted forensic and technical experts of the National Security Guard regarding the things found on the explosion site but are yet to get the report. The officer added that they have found no detonator so far.
