ALWAR: Five persons including two minors have been sent to police custody for raping a woman on September 14. The accused had also forced the woman’s nephew to rape her to ensure that she does not report the matter to police. Two accused were produced in the court on Saturday and sent to police custody while one of the minors was sent to judicial and police custody till September 23.
A 45-year woman was raped in Alwar district’s Tijara police station area when she was returning from a village along Haryana border with her nephew.
The accused forced the woman’s nephew to rape her, the video of which they uploaded on social media. The woman registered a case on Thursday night. Teams were sent to look for the accused who grazed their cattle on the same hill where the woman was raped.
Bhiwadi SP Ram Moorty Joshi said, “we have in our custody five accused including the main accused and are looking for the sixth person named in the FIR who will be arrested soon. We will also write a letter to the authorities concerned to get the survivor some kind of monetary help.”
Cops arrested Aasam Meo (35), who is the main accused, along with Warish Meo (24) and Sahud Meo (19). The two minors are aged 16 and 17 years.
In her statement, the woman said that the accused beat up her nephew when he tried to intervene. After the assault, the accused forced her nephew to rape her to ensure that she would not report the matter to police, she said.
They made a video of the act as well which had apparently surfaced in Haryana.