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Gang involved in abduction-rape-murder of working women busted
Gurugram: The Nuh police on Thursday busted a four-member gang that allegedly abducted at least two women after offering them lifts, gang-raped them and disposed their bodies in lakes or canal after murdering them
Gurugram: The Nuh police on Thursday busted a four-member gang that allegedly abducted at least two women after offering them lifts, gang-raped them and disposed their bodies in lakes or canal after murdering them. Police said they suspect they are involved in the disappearance of at least a dozen more women.
Police said the accused -- identified as Devender alias Bablu, Nasir and Rinku alias Rishabh from Tauru and Manjeet Kumar from Palwal -- were also involved in cases of snatching, robbery and loot for the last six years.
They were produced before a court on Thursday and sent to two-day police remand for further questioning. Police expect to solve multiple cases with the arrest of the suspects.
Narender Bijarnia, the superintendent of police (SP), Nuh, said the suspects, all in their early twenties, were business partners in a transport-cum-DJ business. “They had bought a pick-up van for their business that they used to offer lifts as well as transport bodies and dump them in canals,” he said.
Bijarnia said the crime unit led by sub-inspector Satya Prakash arrested the suspects, who were allegedly on the lookout for potential targets, from Rangla village in Nuh after they received a tip-off.
Detailing one of their alleged crimes, police said on April 24, 2018, the four were on their way to Bhiwadi in the pick-up van when they allegedly saw a woman, who was waiting for public transport to go home after her shift at an industrial area in Bhiwadi.
Police said they allegedly abducted her on the pretext of offering her a lift and took her to Nuh. “They gang-raped her and killed her in the fields of Uthon village in Nuh and dumped her body in a water canal near Biwipur village in Gurugram, after tying stones to her hands and legs,” said Bijarnia.
The body was found after several days and remained unidentified for months. In May 2019, a case was registered at Sadar police station of Nuh under Sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destroying evidence) of the IPC.
Police said during questioning, they confessed to the crime and shared details of more heinous acts. Police said they suspect the gang is involved in over 20 cases of rape and murder.
In another instance, Devender, the alleged kingpin of the gang, offered a lift to a woman who was returning from her in-laws’ place in Gadi Hodal on July 20 last year.
“At first, the woman refused but as it was getting dark, she boarded the van. He held her captive and threatened her. He took her home, raped her and later murdered her. The next day he took her body in the van and dumped it in a water body near Jaurasi. He tied stones to her hands and legs to ensure the body doesn’t surface,” said Bijarnia.
The decomposed body was found after months and a case was registered in August last year under sections 302 (murder) and 201 (destruction of evidence) of the IPC at Tauru police station.
Police said the cases had spread panic among working women in the industrial areas of Bhiwadi and Palwal.
Nuh police will write to Faridabad, Palwal, Bhiwadi and Rewari police to check their records pertaining to working women from their areas. “They have shared more details but we are yet to establish the facts,” said Bijarnia.
