Police say case solved,arrest two

“The five did not set out with the intention of committing the crime. They only seized the opportunity after seeing the two women in a desolate area,” said Police Commissioner B K Gupta.

One of the three other accused surrendered at a Faridabad court a few days back in connection with an earlier case of cattle theft,fearing arrest in the rape case,the police said. “The other two have been identified,but are still at large. We hope to catch them soon,” said DCP (South) H G S Dhaliwal.

The 30-year-old victim from Mizoram was abducted as she was walking to her home in Mochi village after being dropped off by her call centre cab at 1.30 am on November 24. The accused drove her to Mongolpuri at gunpoint and raped her before dumping her on the roadside nearly 40 minutes later.

The accused were travelling on the Ring Road where they noticed the call centre cab with the two women in the car,the police said. They trailed it for a while before intercepting the women who had been dropped off by then.

“Three of the accused tried to pull both the women into the pick-up truck,but one of them managed to escape. The victim was then made to sit in the front seat at gunpoint and driven to Mongolpuri,where the accused parked the vehicle and raped her in the back of the vehicle,” a police officer said. The accused then gave the girl Rs 150 and asked her to take a cab to go home,after which they drove back to Mewat,the police said.

The police scanned thousands of phone records,checked hundreds of commercial vehicles passing through Delhi and went through records of those involved in similar crimes to solve the case,said Gupta.

“On Wednesday,we received information that the accused are hiding in Dhauj and Taini areas of Mewat. A team of 300 personnel raided the area and arrested Usman and Shamshad accused. They also recovered the mini-truck,” Gupta said.

Two of the accused were arrested for rape earlier

When they committed the crime,two of the five suspects were out on bail after being arrested earlier on rape charges. Profiles of the accused:

Usman alias Kale,one of the two arrested on Thursday,was involved in a gangrape case along with his three maternal uncles and brother in 2006. In 2009,he was arrested in a cow theft case along with Shahid,a co-accused in the Dhaula Kuan rape. An illiterate,he lives in Dhauj. Usman has been arrested four times earlier.

Shamshad,also an illiterate,has been arrested in three cases in three cities. In 2005,he was arrested in cow theft cases in Ballabgarh and Faridabad. He was arrested again in a similar case while working as a labourer in a shop at Welcome in Delhi in 2008. “The accused had a fair idea about Delhi,” said Police Commissioner B K Gupta.

Kamru,who is still at large,was involved in a gangrape case with one of his cousins at Dhauj in Haryana,the police said. “He was also sentenced to six years in an attempt-to-murder case in Faridabad. But he fled from court the day the sentence was announced,” Gupta said.

Shahid,who has studied till Class V,was the driver of the Mahindra pick-up truck used in the Dhaula Kuan crime. He surrendered in a cow slaughter case in Faridabad a day after the incident which raised suspicion. “We will seek his custody soon,” said DCP (South) H G S Dhaliwal.

Iqbal,alias Bada Billi,has been involved in three cases along with Usman,Shahid and Shakeel,another member of the gang. “The accused had purchased the Mahindra pick-up for Rs 1,40,000 registered in the name of Jaikam,a resident of Utavad,Haryana,” said the police.

Usman and Shamshad,who were arrested on Thursday,have been sent in one-day judicial custody after the police moved a plea for their test identification parade by the victim.