Chandigarh: A young woman from Haryana’s Sonepat district was abducted, brutally raped and murdered on the pattern of 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape incident.
According to police, the head and face of the victim was smashed with a blunt object and crushed under the wheels of a vehicle.
Police has arrested two men in this regards, including the neighbor of the victim who was involved in stalking the girl from past few days.
The deceased Haryana woman was aged around 22 year-old who went missing on May 9th, as per the complaint filed by her family.
On early Friday morning, her body was found on the outskirts of Rohtak town, 70 km from national capital Delhi.
The incident comes days after the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence of four accused in the December 16, 2012 Nirbhaya gang-rape.
Police officials said that forensic experts have disclosed that the victim was sexually assaulted and her body was badly mutilated. Stray dogs had bitten off parts of the body.
The cops were told that the victim’s head and face were smashed with a hard object and crushed under the wheels of a vehicle. This was done to hide her identity.
A police officer told media persons, the Haryana Police have launched an investigation into the brutal gang rape and murder. The arrested men were being interrogated.
The two men arrested have been identified as Sumit and Vikas, police said that Sumit was a neighbour of the victim in Sonepat and had been stalking her. He was pressurising her to marry him but she had refused.
Police officials alleged that Sumit planned the gang rape and murder to teach a lesson to the woman.
A mentally unstable Nepalese woman was brutally gang raped and murdered by seven men in Rohtak district in February 2015. The accused were awarded the death penalty by a local court in December 2015.
