New Delhi, May 16: Three men were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly murdering the woman whose body was found inside LNJP Hospital twenty days ago. Police said the accused had gang-raped the woman twice before murdering her.
The accused have been identified as Salman alias Chimman (24) who works at a printing press, Arif (26) a butcher and Mohamed Yahiya (26) who works at a grocery store, said police. The fourth accused, Asif, is on the run. The identity of the woman, however, has not been established yet, said police.
Police said the men revealed during interrogation that they use to roam in the hospital premises and lure young women on pretext of friendship. The accused Yahiya had befriended the victim almost two weeks before her murder, when she had come to the hospital for treatment. He met her twice after that.
On the day of the murder (April 23), Yahiya allegedly called the woman on the pretext of introducing her to his friends. According to police, the four men then took her to one of the washrooms in the OPD and took turns to rape her. After she threatened to expose them, the accused persuaded her to come to Buddha Garden to sort out the matter. There again they gang-raped her, said cops. After consuming liquor at night, they brought her back to the hospital, said police.
This time as they tried taking her to the toilet, an argument broke out among the accused who were drunk. Sensing an opportunity to escape, the woman tried to raise an alarm. The accused then attacked her, stabbed her twice and slit her throat. They then fled from the premises.
Additional CP (central), Devesh Chandra Srivastava, said, "We have arrested three persons behind the woman's murder. We have evidence against them and they have confessed to the crime. The fourth accused has absconded. We are trying to establish the identity of the woman."
Strangely, the body went unnoticed for two days even though the area where it was found - a garbage dump near the doctors' hostel - was frequented by people and security guards also patrol the stretch.
The arrests come a day after the crime branch solved the case of the body that had been found near the Nehru Place Metro Station. This gruesome tale raises questions on the security provided at a major hospital in the capital. The cops are verifying if the four accused had committed a similar crime earlier.
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