రాయపూర్: చత్తీస్గడ్ రాష్ట్రంలోని బిలాస్పూర్లో ఘోరం జరిగింది. బిలాస్పూర్లోని రైల్వే స్టేషన్ వద్ద ఓ మహిళపై మూడు రోజుల క్రితం సామూహిక అత్యాచారం జరిగింది.
నలుగురు వ్యక్తులు ఓ మహిళపై అత్యాచారం చేసినట్లు ఫిర్యాదు అందింది. నలుగురిలో ఇద్దరి కోసం పోలీసులు గాలిస్తున్నారు. మహిళ ఫిర్యాదు చేయగానే పోలీసులు ఇద్దరిని అరెస్టు చేశారు. మరో ఇద్దరు రైలు ఎక్కి, సంఘటనా స్థలం నుంచి పారిపోయినట్లు భావిస్తున్నారు.
సరుగ్జా ప్రాంతంలోని బైకుంఠాపురంలో గల తన అత్తారింటికి వెళ్లడానికి మహిళ శుక్రవారం ఐదో నెంబర్ ప్లాట్ఫాంపై నిలబడింది. ఆమెను నలుగురు యువకులు బలవంతంగా లాక్కెళ్లి ఆమెపై అత్యాచారం జరిపారు. నిందితుల్లో ఒకతన్ని 26 ఏళ్ల దినేష్ సాహుగా పోలీసులు గుర్తించారు. అతను కాంట్రాక్టర్గా పనిచేస్తున్నాడు. మరో నిందితుడు మైనర్ అని తెలుస్తోంది. మరో ఇద్దరిని పట్టుకోవడానికి వివిధ ప్రాంతాలకు పోలీసులను పంపించారు.
బిలాస్పూర్ రైల్వే స్టేషన్లోనూ, దాని పరిసర ప్రాంతాల్లోనూ ఇటీవలి కాలంలో నేరాలు పెరిగిపోయాయి. ఆగస్టులో ఏడేళ్ల బాలికపై బిలాస్పూర్ సమీపంలో హౌరా ఎక్స్ప్రెస్లో అత్యాచారం జరిగినట్లు ఆరోపణలు వచ్చాయి.
Mumbai: Following the arrest of all five accused in the Mumbai gang-rape case, the police have now launched a hunt for the mobile phone that was used to take pictures of the victim after she was sexually assaulted.
The 22-year-old photojournalist, working as an intern with an English magazine, was gang-raped in the premises of the defunct Shakti Mills compound where she had gone along with a male colleague on an official assignment to shoot pictures on August 22.
Reports quoted police as saying that the missing phone belonged to one of the accused Mohammed Kasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali, 21, who has been described as "the most depraved" of the lot.
The police told a court yesterday that Bangali was not co-operating and has refused to disclose where he has hidden the phone. Bengali, a resident of Agripada in central Mumbai, is in police custody till August 30.
Other reports, meanwhile, said the phone belonged to Salim Ansari, who was arrested from Delhi by the Crime Branch sleuths yesterday. He is being brought to Mumbai and is expected to be produced before the court today for remand.
Reports said Ansari, who was arrested from Bharat Nagar in North-West Delhi, sold off the mobile phone in Delhi as he was running out of cash.
As per police, the accused had tied up the victim's colleague at a little distance away from the scene of the crime and gang-raped her after threatening her with a broken piece of a beer bottle which they placed near her neck. They shot pictures of the act and warned the victim not to disclose it to anyone or else the pictures would be circulated.
All five accused have been booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) such as 376(D) (rape), 342 (wrongful confinement), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention).
MUMBAI: City police commissioner Satya Pal Singh on Friday said the trial against the five accused, who gang-raped a photo journalist, will take place in a fast track court.
The girl, who was reportedly on an assignment for photoshoot at Shakti Mills near Lower Parel on Thursday, was raped by five youths. Her male friend was assaulted by the accused, who tied him to a tree.
"We have formed 20 teams to investigate the case. We will make a watertight case and it will be heard in a fast track court for faster justice," the city police chief said.
The police have so far arrested only one accused while the other four have been identified.
"The arrested accused has confessed to his crime. We will seek maximum punishment for the accused," he added.
According to the commissioner, the accused told the girl and her male colleague that they were on railway property where photography was not allowed.
Suspects first approached victim and her colleague to harass them.
MEERUT: A Class XI student was allegedly abducted and gang-raped by four youths fromThanaKankarkheda area of Meerut district, police said on Monday. According to the FIR registered by the girl, she was alone on July 25 when four youths from her village forcibly entered the house. She was drugged and taken in a car to the neighbouring Ghaziabad district where she was gang-raped by the four accused, they said. On Saturday, the accused fled after dropping the victim at a lonely spot in Ghaziabad, Kankarkheda police officer said. The traumatized girl mustered enough courage to inform her family about the incident, following which she was taken to the police station and a case was registered against the four accused, police officer said. The victim has been sent for medical examination, he said adding that efforts are on to arrest the accused.
