‘Friend Tied, Woman Sexually Assaulted’: Police Details Pune Gang-rape incident, Prepare Sketches To Nab Accused

Pune police on Friday released sketches of two of the three suspects involved in the alleged gang-rape of a 21-year-old woman. The incident occurred on Thursday night at Pune’s Bopdev Ghat, where the woman was out with her friend.

The sketches were created using the victim’s statement, depicting two of the three assailants. Based on these sketches, the Pune crime branch and local police teams are searching for the accused.

The woman, who was receiving treatment at a hospital, is now told to be recovering.

According to the Kondhwa police, under whose jurisdiction the crime occurred, the woman had gone to the locality with a male friend.

“As per preliminary details, the woman and her male friend had gone to the Bopdev Ghar area on late Thursday night where three unidentified persons allegedly raped her,” said Ranjan Kumar Sharma, additional commissioner of police.

He said the trio first tied the woman’s male friend to a tree at the crime scene and then took turns to rape her.

The police came to know about the incident at around 5 am on Friday after the woman along with her male friend approached Maharashtra government-run Sassoon General Hospital in Pune city, said Sharma.

(With inputs from PTI)