Five men, including an auto-rickshaw driver allegedly gang-raped a 19-year-old woman in Gurugram on Tuesday night, the police said on Thursday.
This is the latest case of sexual assault reported from Haryana. In January, the Haryana government was severely criticised after five incidents of sexual assault were reported in the state in five days.
The woman told the police that she was waiting for a bus at Sohna bus stand around 8 pm, when the auto-rickshaw driver offered her a lift, Hindustan Times reported. The driver reportedly told her that the bus she was waiting for had left and that she could take a train from Gurugram. The driver offered to take her to the station, but took her to a secluded spot near the Raisina crusher zone instead. There four other men were waiting for them, and the accused allegedly took turns to sexually assault her.
The accused threatened to kill her if she told anyone about the rape, the police said. The woman approached the police on Wednesday and a case was registered at Bhondsi police station, The Indian Express reported. “The woman has undergone a medical examination,” said Inspector Umesh Kumar, the Station House Officer of the Bhondsi police station. “However, she did not need to be admitted in the hospital.” The police said that they were trying to identify and track down the accused.
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