Nine including 3 minors involved in gang rape, loot, theft cases held
   Date :03-Sep-2019
 
 
Staff Reporter :
 
BHILAI
 
POLICE arrested six and also took into custody three minors in connection with the gang rape that was reported about six months ago. The police also established the involvement of the accused in motorbike and other theft and loot cases and confiscated stolen valuables including 9 two-wheelers, 9 mobile phones and batteries from their possession.
 
The police withheld identity details of the accused as in the course of identification parade their involvement would finally be established. While elaborating on involvement of the accused in gang rape case, the police said that at about 1:30 am on March 11, 2019, the complainant was on way home with his sister-in-law on a motorbike when the accused intercepted his motorbike and indulged in making indecent advances while molesting his sister-in-law. The accused severely thrashed the victim when he protested and forcibly took away his sister-in-law on their motorbikes. They also relieved him of two mobile phones and a motorbike. During interrogation in police custody in their confession the accused disclosed that the victim woman was forcibly taken into bushes, located by a road in Sector-6, Bhilai wherein they gang raped her and fled the spot afterwards.
 
The police also said that the gang rape case could be solved when the police apprehended one for interrogation in connection with his suspected involvement in a theft case. During interrogation while confessing his involvement in several thefts and loots the accused also disclosed names of his accomplices. On basis of confession, police rounded up all accomplices of the accused and when grilled them for information regarding their possible involvement in other criminal cases, the accused disclosed their involvement in old unsolved gang rape case.
 
Talking to the newspaper, Rohit Kumar Jha, ASP (City) informed that five accused and a minor were involved in gang rape case. He also informed that all six accused and three minors were either involved loots or gang rape hence the identity of all the accused has been withheld for finally establishing their involvement in loot and the gang rape case in the course of identification parade.