Gangrape of woman in Hyderabad's Prashantnagar: Five accused arrested, sent to remand

In a shocking incident that surfaced belatedly, five persons allegedly gangraped a woman on December 7 midnight in Hyderabad's Prashantnagar. The woman, who was waiting for a bus, was approached by a man offering her a lift. He misled her, took her to a deserted place and raped her. Then he called four of his friends and gang-raped her. All the five accused were arrested and sent to remand.

Hyderabad (Telangana) : Five people who allegedly gang-raped a woman near the Prashantnagar Railway Quarters, Hyderabad, were arrested and sent to remand. As per police sources, Barney Esu (32), one of the primary accused in the case, hails from Prashantnagar and is a mechanic. On December 7, he was travelling from Tarnaka to Prashantnagar on a two-wheeler at midnight.

Seeing a woman waiting for a bus, he offered her a lift and said that he would drop her off at Lalapeta. Later, he misled her and took her to a deserted area near Prashantnagar Railway Quarters and raped her.

East Zone Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sunil Dutt disclosed the details of the case at Lalaguda Police Station on December 17. The DCP said that after committing the offence, the main accused called his friends who gangraped her. Esu was first joined by his friend Sita Madhu Yadav (31) and together they raped her again.

Further, the duo called three other friends, Srigiri Prashanth Kumar (20), Tarun Kumar (20), and Rohit (19) and committed a joint sexual assault on the victim. After committing the crime, the miscreants dropped her off at Tarnaka and fled from the scene. The police registered a case based on the complaint of the victim and identified them after checking the CCTV footage.

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