2 held in Gurgaon rape, woman recounts horror

Nine days after a woman was gangraped and her nine-month-old baby flung to the ground and killed to smother her cries, the police on Wednesday arrested two of the three men allegedly responsible for the double crime.

The police nabbed Yogendra from his hideout in Gurgaon, while Amit was arrested a few hours later from the city, Gurgaon Police Commissioner Sandeep Khirwar said, adding their accomplice, Jaikesh, is still on the run.

Admitting lapses on the part of the police in acting promptly on the victim’s complaint, Khirwar said that one woman subinspector had been suspended.

All the three accused had come to Gurgaon from Bulandshahr in western Uttar Pradesh recently, the police commissioner said.

As the police pieced together the narrative behind the May 29 gangrape and murder in the industrial area of Manesar, the woman recounted her fourhour horror, a short distance away from the bustling “millennium town” of Gurgaon.

“My child died but I never got to know,” she told reporters outside the police station in a chilling matteroffact tone.

She was on her way to her parental house at Khandsa village when she was first given a lift in a truck. The truck driver also molested her but dropped her off on the busy NH 8 as she put up strong resistance. That’s when the three evidently drunk men spotted her and offered to drop her home.

Her story underscoring once again the vulnerability of women in the National Capital Region and the lack of effective police action, the young woman said there was no police patrol in sight through that endless night.

The police also reportedly did not register an FIR of gangrape initially but included the charge five days after the incident.