Amaravati: The Guntur police in Andhra Pradesh are hunting for at least four suspects in a case of alleged gang-rape. The gang-rape happened around midnight Wednesday. Police said that at least four miscreants are involved in the incident in which a 26-year-old homemaker’s modesty was outraged.
According to the police, the accused beat her husband and tied him up to a tree before gang-raping the woman. “This is a case of unidentified suspects but we are narrowing down on them,” Guntur Urban Superintendent of Police K Arif Hafeez informed Friday.
According to the victims’ statement, four persons were said to be involved in the crime, the SP said. He said condition of the woman was stable now. She is undergoing treatment at the Government General Hospital in Guntur. “There will be a breakthrough in the case soon,” Hafeez asserted.
The two were on their way home in Sattenapalli on a two-wheeler after attending a family function in Medikonduru. They were waylaid and attacked. The accused dragged the couple into agricultural fields, along with the two-wheeler, and thrashed the husband. They then tied him up to a tree and raped the woman in turns, police said. The couple was later threatened not to disclose the crime to anyone.
However, after the accused fled the spot, the victims went to the Sattenapalli police station to lodge a complaint. However, only a sentry was available at the time. Sattenappli DSP Vijayabhaskar Reddy, however, claimed that a constable took down the woman’s complaint. He also alerted the Medikonduru police immediately.
“We have the (telephone) call data to prove our prompt action,” the DSP said. Police teams, including forensic experts, visited the crime scene to collect clues. Based on initial suspicion, they picked up some construction workers in a nearby cold storage site for questioning. Some of the workers were from Odisha and some from Srikakulam and Vizianagaram districts of north coastal AP. Police said no arrests have been made yet and the investigation was continuing.
