JAIPUR: A day after one of the accused involved in the alleged gangrape of a 23-year-old girl near Bhankrota on June 6 was arrested, police said they were mulling action against the girl’s male friend who had dropped her near a secluded spot in Bhankrota following a tiff between the duo late night.
DCP (west) Richa Tomar told TOI that police were examining the role of the girl’s friend who had dropped her at the place following which she was waylaid and raped. The girl was returning from a party in the boy’s car and following a tiff, the boy asked her to leave his car at a secluded place and drove away. The girl was walking alone when the accused abducted her before taking turns to rape her.
Police had arrested one Prem Singh from UP on Monday, the other accused Sukh Lal, remains at large. Additional DCP (East) Ram Singh said police teams had conducted a door-to-door survey in pursuit of the suspects, based on the description provided by the girl.
“It was a blind case because there was no clue about the two accused. What we did know was that there were a lot of cement factories in that location. Workers from different cities come here to work there. So, we conducted a widespread search and zeroed in the two suspects.”
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
