Varanasi: A 27-year-old journalist on assignment was allegedly gang-raped by two persons in Mirzapur district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday night.
The woman, who claims to be associated with a Hindi newspaper of Haridwar in neighbouring Uttarakhand, lodged a complaint with the police on Friday. The police arrested one of the accused, who was identified as Ashwani Tewari.
The incident took place in Vindhyachal, a place of Hindu pilgrimage. The woman, along with her sister, had arrived in the town last Monday to do a story on the historic temples of the region. They were staying at a local hotel.
The woman told the police that she had gone to Ashtabhuja temple, situated on a hill top, on Thursday afternoon. According to her, she came down around 8pm and headed for the Mirzapur-Allahabad highway to hire an auto.
She alleged that three persons in a white Scorpio abducted her and took her to an isolated place. The woman said while two of them raped her, the other person refused to be a part of the crime after learning she was a journalist.
They allegedly dumped the woman in a forest area in the wee hours of Friday. The woman said she reached a nearby railway crossing and informed the gateman about the incident.
{{/usCountry}}They allegedly dumped the woman in a forest area in the wee hours of Friday. The woman said she reached a nearby railway crossing and informed the gateman about the incident.
{{/usCountry}}“One person has been arrested and the vehicle used for abducting the victim has been recovered,” said RK Srivastava, deputy inspector general of police.