Three arrested for raping Haryana-based dancer in Delhi

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

Three men were arrested on Friday for allegedly raping a in northeast Delhi's Khas, police said.

The incident took place five days ago when the 20-year-old woman had come to Khas in north-east for a show, which turned out to be a trap laid for her by the trio, they said.

The woman had arrived at Kashmere Gate ISBT on a bus from from where the accused had picked her up in a car on the pretext of taking her to the event venue, police said.

"They instead took the woman to a house near an isolated field in Bawana where the incident took place," a said.

They had then dumped her near Chowk and also taken away her cellphone, he said.

The accused have been identified as (21), Om (25) and Hrishikesh (25) and arrested, Thakur said.

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First Published: Sat, April 06 2019. 00:55 IST