Cops struggle to ascertain if 19-year-old was raped

Vadodara: Was the 19-year-old girl raped by only one of the accused or was she assaulted by both? The police investigating the case said that though they have booked both her accused co-workers for raping the girl, only the FSL tests will prove how many were involved in the crime.
“We have got traces of semen from the girl’s body so it is established that the accused got physical with her. But we will have to wait for FSL test reports to ascertain if the semen is only of one of the accused or both. If we find two semen samples, then it would be a clear case of gang rape,” said a senior police official involved in the investigation.
Cops said that accused Dishant Kahar has already admitted his crime, but the other accused Nazeem Mirza is denying. “Dishant said that it was consensual, but he is lying. Nazeem even claimed that he didn’t have liquor but we have an eyewitness who saw him drunk. Nazeem has denied raping the girl,” the official told TOI.
Investigators said that even if Nazeem may not have raped the girl, he is equally guilty of the crime. “He was the one who brought the liquor that was given to the girl. He was well aware of the plan to get her drunk and then rape her. When Dishant raped the girl, he was in the room so his complicity in the ghastly crime is clear,” the official added.
The girl, a resident of Laxmipura area, had told her boyfriend that she was touched without her permission and was raped. She resisted but was too tipsy to ward off the accused. In her suicide note too she mentioned that ‘something bad’ had happened with her. The police have said that Dishant and Nazeem, both colleagues of the girl, were trying to woo the girl for last couple of months. “They had been prying on her. It was a pre-planned rape,” the police said.