Faridabad gang rape prime accused arrested from Mathura

Police said that they will produce Kumar before a court in Faridabad and will take him on remand for a detailed interrogation.

Published on: Nov 1, 2025, 05:32:16 IST

By Debashish Karmakar

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Gurugram: The prime accused who allegelly kidnapped and raped a minor girl in a car on Sunday was arrested from Chhata in Uttar Pradesh’s Mathura on Friday, said police.

Police said the suspect is a truck driver (File photo)

Police identified the suspect as Pankaj Kumar, 22, who was a truck driver. The 15-year-old victim and the accused got acquainted when she and her father had travelled in his truck two months back to reach Faridabad after failing to get any transport in a border area.

DCP (central) Usha Devi said that since then the duo were in touch with each other and the accused came to meet her in Sector 18 in a car on Sunday evening with two of his friends.

“He had dropped the two associates accompanying him near Chhata and took the victim to Vrindavan. While returning, he raped her in the car and fled after dropping her near her residence at 3.30am on Monday,” she said.

The DCP said that other details will be revealed after further investigation and questioning of two other suspects who are yet to be arrested to know if they played any role in the crime.

Police said that they will produce Kumar before a court in Faridabad and will take him on remand for a detailed interrogation.

The matter had come to light on Monday when the girl’s sister had alerted police alleging gang rape by four suspects after being taken away in a car.

On basis of her complaint, an FIR was registered against unidentified suspects under sections 123 (causing hurt by means of poison with intent to commit an offence), 351(3) (criminal intimidation by threatening to cause death, grievous hurt or to impute unchastity to a woman) and 96 (procuration of child) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanihta and sections 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and 17 (abetment of an offence) of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (Pocso) Act at Old Faridabad police station.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Debashish Karmakar
Debashish Karmakar is a principal correspondent with the Hindustan Times, Gurugram bureau. He has a vast journalistic experience of almost 14 years of covering crime, court, power, transport, administration, weather and other beats while working across various organisations. He has been covering Gurugram, Faridabad, Nuh, Palwal and other districts of southern Haryana for more than four and a half years. He has produced several breaking and exclusive stories while reporting from the ground where he maintains a strong presence on a daily basis. He writes news articles which are hard-hitting and accurate. With his strong bureaucratic sources, he frequently writes stories to expose the failure of the system forcing authorities to take necessary course-corrective steps. Besides crime, important convictions and court orders, he also writes on human-angle stories, on power issues and challenges faced by the residents on a daily basis in Gurugram and neighbouring areas. In the past, he worked for media houses like The Times of India, where he extensively reported on important government matters and daily proceedings at the Patna High Court. He has also worked in the electronic media and had done ground coverage on the Kedarnath deluge that wrecked Uttarakhand in 2013.Read More

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