New Delhi: Two girls out for a walk with their boyfriends at a park in Outer Delhi’s Aman Vihar area were allegedly gangraped by a group of five youth late on Wednesday evening.
The assailants thrashed the victims’ boyfriends before tying them up to a tree in the park. They then dragged the girls, aged 17 and 18, to bushes nearby and raped them.
Acting on the descriptions of the accused provided by the girls and their friends, the police led by Vikramjit Singh, DCP (Outer), caught four of the suspects on Thursday.
The fifth suspect, believed to have led the gang, has been identified and a hunt is on for him.
The police said some of the nabbed youth claimed to be minors and their age had to be verified. One of them is pursuing BA via correspondence whereas the other four are school dropouts.
The girls live with their families in Kirari area and work in factories. They have told the police that after work they often meet their boyfriends, aged 19 and 20 respectively, in a secluded open field near Mundka Metro station.
The two couples were spending some time together again on Wednesday evening when the five youths walked past. “One of the couples was cosying up. The accused youths approached the two couples and demanded that the girls should oblige them sexually,” said a senior police officer. When the couples objected to their demands, the five youths allegedly began assaulting the girls’ boyfriends with sticks, all the while threatening to get them arrested. They then tied up the boyfriends before dragging the girls away into bushes nearby. The youths then took turns to rape the girls before leaving with threats to eliminate all of them if they reported the matter to police. The girls returned to their boyfriends, untied them and walked to the nearby road after which they informed the police.
The boys sustained physical injuries, but they were not serious in nature, said police. The girls, meanwhile, were sent for medical examination which confirmed rape. A case of gang rape, causing hurt, wrongful restraint and under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (Pocso) was subsequently registered at Aman Vihar police station.
Te description of the accused, provided by the victims, helped as they were soon identified to be living in the same area as the girls.
