New Delhi: A 30-year-old woman was allegedly gangraped by four employees of the railway department at New Delhi Railway Station, police said. The incident took place on Thursday night and the four accused have been arrested.
DCP Railway Harendra Singh said the woman was “raped by the railway employees in the electrical maintenance staff hut at the railway station’s platform no 8-9”.
“The victim, aged 30, was raped in the electrical maintenance staff hut at Railway Station platform 8-9 Thursday night. All 4 accused are Railway Employees in Electrical Department have been arrested,” Singh was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.
“The call was earlier received at PS ODRS at around 2:27 p.m. The staff there checked for the caller but could not find her. Upon contacting her on the given mobile number, it was known that she is standing at PF No. 8-9 of the station. Immediately, the SHO along with the staff reached platforms 8-9 where he met the victim,” police told IANS.
The victim informed police that she is separated from her husband for the last one year and was seeking divorce. Around two years back, she came in contact with Satish through a common friend. He told her that he is a railway employee and can arrange a job for her. Both continued talking over phone calls. On July 21, he asked her over a call to come to his home as he was hosting his son’s birthday party and house-warming. She came via metro to Kirti Nagar at around 10:30 p.m. from where she was picked up by the accused and brought to PF 8-9 of New Delhi Railway Station. He asked her to sit in a hut meant for electrical maintenance staff.
“Then he and his friend came inside the room and bolted it from inside and sexually assaulted her one after another. Two of his accomplices facilitated the assault by guarding the room from outside,” the police said.
She was then taken to a nearby government hospital where she was made to undergo a medical test. Rape was established in her medical report. The police then lodged the FIR and charged the accused under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code for rape and assault.
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