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Police nab 3 rape accused within hours of crime

Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD: Taking swift action, the Surat police succeeded in nabbing all the three accused in a kidnapping and gang rape case within hours of the crime.

According to the Surat Police Commissioner, Deepak Swaroop, two of the accused turned out to be sons of police personnel, the father of one being posted in Surat itself and the other being recently transferred to Banaskantha district in north Gujarat.

The police said the victim of the gang rape, a 17-year old girl from a well-do-do family in the city, was going to tuition classes early in the morning on Friday accompanied by a boyfriend when the accused in a car approached them.

Boyfriend tied to tree

The accused introduced themselves as policemen and told the duo that they would have to be taken to the police station for indecency in the public as they had been found in a “compromising position” under a fly-over. The two were forced into the car and were taken to the outskirts of the city where the boy was tied to a tree and the girl gang-raped in the car and later abandoned on the roadside.

After the father of the girl lodged a police complaint, the police swung into action and picked up the three accused, Saeed Sayed and Tariq Sayed, both sons of policemen, and Abu Bakr, all in their twenties. The police claimed that all the three had confessed their crime during the preliminary interrogation.

Daylight robbery

Meanwhile, the police have recovered the car used in the daring daylight robbery in Ahmedabad on Thursday in which cash worth over Rs. 61 lakh was looted from three employees of the Progressive Mercantile Co-operative Bank while they were on their way to the bank head office to deposit the cash.

The police said the car, which was stolen from Vadodara the previous day and used in the crime, was found abandoned in a residential colony in the posh Nehrunagar locality from where the robbers decamped with the loot. The police said two women residents of the colony claimed to have seen two of the robbers when they were leaving the car behind. The women helped the police prepare the sketches of the two accused which were released by the police for information.

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