Haryana woman abducted, dumped in UP after gang rape

A 35-year-old woman abducted from here in Haryana and dumped in Greater Noida in Uttar Pradesh after her alleged gang rape in a moving car said on Tuesday she was asked to get into the vehicle by a man known to her brother-in-law.

The woman was abducted from near her house in Sohna in Gurugram district around 8.30 p.m. on Monday by three men in a Swift car, police in Noida earlier said.

The police quoted the victim as saying that the men raped her in the car through the night and then threw her out near Yatharth building in Kasna in Greater Noida. Locals saw her lying along a road and alerted the police on Tuesday morning.

A team of Uttar Pradesh Police headed by a Deputy Superintendent of Police visited Gurugram on Tuesday to investigate the crime.

At the Sector 29 police station, the woman registered her statement in the presence of legal advisers of Uttar Pradesh Police and Haryana Police, Deputy Commissioner of Police Deepak Saharan told IANS.

Police said the woman, hailing from Bharatpur in Rajasthan, was living in Sohna town here with her relatives in a rented accommodation.

She said she came to the Mehrauli-Gurugram Road on Monday evening in an auto-rickshaw, whose driver was known to her brother-in-law.

The auto-rickshaw driver told the woman that she may have a joyride in a car, saying its three occupants were known to him. Police said the woman boarded the car at the IFFCO Chowk.

"They started molesting me after half an hour, forced me to consume alcohol and sexually assaulted me in the moving car. I was dumped in Greater Noida on Tuesday morning," she said in her statement.

An earlier version said the woman had been abducted by the car's occupants in Gurugram.

In Noida, Senior Superintendent of Police Luv Kumar said earlier that although she sustained some abrasions on her body, they were awaiting a final medical examination.

He told IANS: "We're examining CCTV footage to identify the three suspects."

The woman told the police that she originally hailed from Rajasthan's Bharatpur. Informed sources said the woman was living separately from her husband and was working part time in a Gurgaon bar.

--IANS

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