2 more Ghitorni abductors held

Delhi police have arrested the remaining two of the five accused who had abducted and assaulted a 24-year-old pub assistant near Ghitorni metro station on July 23.

Delhi police have arrested the remaining two of the five accused who had abducted and assaulted a 24-year-old pub assistant near Ghitorni metro station on July 23.

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The arrested persons were identified as Deepak Kumar and Arun Kumar. Police said the two were in the Scorpio car at the time of incident. Sources said both had fled to Shimla and Punjab.

On July 23, a drunken group of five men from Faridabad got together to celebrate the purchase of a new Scorpio vehicle by one Kartar Singh.

They had consumed liquor and then proceeded towards Sahara Mall in Gurgaon, where they had an altercation with the pub assistant after which they abducted her by following the radio taxi she had booked.

"We have arrested the remaining two in the abduction case," confirmed Chhaya Sharma, DCP (south). They were arrested from the Badarpur area of southeast Delhi.

Police have arrested two accused on the very day of the incident, while the third one, Ravish Nagar, 22, was arrested four days later.

Nagar had been hiding in a friend's house and was nabbed by a specially constituted team in a surprise raid on July 28.