Two Uttar Pradesh Police personnel and two other Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel have been arrested in connection with the gang rape of a 24-year-old woman from Haryana in Amroha district, police said.
Woman called police helpline
The three allegedly brought her to a farmhouse on the Atrasi-Hasanpur road, where they rented two rooms. “Based on the victim’s complaint, an FIR has been registered against the four accused under the relevant sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for abduction or enticement and gangrape. Police have questioned the property’s manager as part of the investigation.
Amroha superintendent of police (SP) Lakhan Singh Yadav said the woman, a resident of Fatehabad in Haryana, was contacted by an acquaintance on September 20 who put her in touch with CRPF sub-inspector Mohit, a resident of UP’s Muzaffarnagar district. She met Mohit in Sonipat on September 21, and they planned a visit to religious places in Amroha. On the evening of September 22, Mohit and Lalaram allegedly went with the woman to Hasanpur, picking up UP Police sub-inspector Sanjay Tomar along the way. The woman told the police that she searched online for a police helpline number and contacted the police at around 6 am on Wednesday.
Police said UP Police head constable Pramod arranged food and alcohol for the group. All four have been arrested and remanded in judicial custody,” SP Lakhan Singh Yadav said. Hasanpur Kotwali in-charge Amar Pal Singh said the farmhouse where the alleged incident took place reportedly belongs to an independent MLA from Uttarakhand. In a post on X, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav described the incident as a stain on the police force which, he said, no amount of patronage could erase. He said when governance was based on crime, the police force also becomes corrupt.
