In yet another shocking incident of gangrape in the city, an 18-year-old girl was raped by two men at a deserted area in IDPL Colony, Balanagar.
The girl, a native of Kothagudem, Khammam, was working in a textile shop at Ameerpet, and was staying in a friend’s house.
One of the acccused, 22-year-old Venkat, used to supply water to the shop where the girl worked and so knew her.
He told the girl he would drop her home on his bike. Instead, he took her to Balanagar on Sunday night while his friend followed them.
After raping her, the two men left her on the main road at Kukatpally, where she approached a police night patrol, Balanagar assitant commissioner of police S. Damoder said.
On Tuesday, the police took the two accused into custody, but is yet to officially arrest them.
“We are verifying the information the girl gave us,” Balanagar DCP P. Pramod Kumar said.
The police said the victim came to Hyderabad nine days ago after a quarrel with her parents.
“Her friend was working in a textile shop at Ameerpet, and she joined the same shop after coming to the city,” a police official said.
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‘Spurned’ cousin kills woman
age Correspondent
Visakhapatnam, Jan. 15
As the nation demands capital punishment for rapists and stricter laws on crime against women, there seems to be no respite for women. In Vizag a 21-year-old girl and second year degree student of a private college was brutally murdered by her relative (cousin) in a beauty parlour near Kailashanagar under Gajuwaka Police station limits in Vizag city on Tuesday morning.
A jilted man killed the girl with a sharp sickle after his marriage proposal
was refused by the girl and her family. However, locals nabbed theculprit while he was trying to escape. According to reports, U. Babita (21) and her maternal uncle’s son B. Shiva Adinarayana, a driver by profession in Vijayawada area, were in
love with each other. However, their parents were against the marriage as their horoscopes didn’t match. Babita, was employed in a beauty parlour near Gajuwaka area. The girl’s family requested him to stay away from them.