Three Bulandshahr gang-rape accused sent to jail for 14 days

A fast track court in Bulandshahar has sent three accused in the highway gangrape case to 14 days of judicial custody on Monday.

A fast track court in Bulandshahar has sent three accused in the highway gang-rape case to 14 days of judicial custody on Monday.

UP top cop Javeed Ahmed and principal secretary home Debashish Panda talk to the media. (Sakib Ali/HT)

Police produced the three accused - Raees, Shavej and Jabar Singh in the fast track court of additional district judge Dhruv Kumar Tiwari amid tight security on Monday afternoon. The accused were arrested on Sunday evening.

There was a massive anger against the accused and hundreds of people including lawyers gathered outside the court when the accused were brought in.

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Meanwhile, addresses of two more accused Naresh and Bablu have turned out to be fake. Police teams have been sent to verify their new addresses in Bharatpur, said the DIG (Meerut) Laxmi Singh said.

Police nabbed 15 suspects for the gang-rape of a woman and her teenage daughter on Saturday near Bulandshahr on the Delhi-Kanpur highway.