Sonepat woman gangraped
Postmortem report says private parts mutilated, local man spots dead body after he saw dogs feeding on the victim
ROHTAK: A 20-year-old woman was allegedly gang raped and killed in Haryana’s Rohtak by her jilted lover and his friend, who smashed her face with a brick and crushed the body under the wheels of their car to conceal her identity, police said on Saturday. Stray dogs had eaten the victim’s face and lower portion of her body which was spotted by a passerby on May 11, police added. The accused, Sumit Kumar from Sonepat and Vikas from UP, have been arrested.
This savage and bonechilling incident has shocked conscience of the nation, reminding each one of us about the crying need for revisiting the important issue of women’s safety, security. SONIA GANDHI, Congress president
woman in her early 20s was allegedly gang-raped and killed in Haryana’s Rohtak by her jilted lover and his friend, who smashed her face with a brick and crushed the body under the wheels of their car to conceal her identity, police said on Saturday.
Stray dogs had eaten the victim’s face and lower portion of her body, which was spotted by a passerby in a secluded area of the city in Haryana on May 11, police added. The two accused, Sumit Kumar from Sonepat and Vikas from UP, have been arrested.
The victim’s private parts were also mutilated by the accused, police said, adding that sedatives were found in her stomach during the post-mortem. The incident took place on May 9.
The incident took place weeks after the Haryana government launched a special drive teams called Operation Durga to stop harassment of women in public places in the state.
A few days ago, the Supreme Court upheld the death sentences to four men convicted of brutalising and killing a paramedical student in Delhi in 2012. The incident had sparked massive protests by students, forcing the government to overhaul laws governing rape.
Congress president Sonia Gandhi expressed shock over the Rohtak incident and said the issue of women’s safety needs to be revisited.
Sonepat city station house officer Ajay Kumar said Sumit admitted during questioning to have raped and murdered the woman. “He said they were close once, but not together anymore. He said an argument broke out between them and he committed the crime in anger,” said Kumar. The accused were sent to two-day police remand by a court on Saturday.
The crime jolted Rohtak, which was shaken by the rape and murder of a mentally challenged Nepalese woman in the district in 2015.
Acourtawardeddeathpenalty to seven men convicted in the case.“This savage and bone-chilling incident has shocked the conscience of the nation, reminding each one of us about the crying need for revisiting the important issue of women’s safety and security,” Gandhi said in a statement.Haryana is ruled by the Manohar Lal Khattar-led BJP government.