Death sentence: Man used company’s car to kidnap teen, it led to arrest of all three

Saraswati had told the investigating officer that “a boy opened the door and pulled the victim inside the car while 3-4 other boys were sitting inside”. An eyewitness, Vikas, said in his statement that on February 9, 2012, he had got down from a bus at Sumesh Vihar when he spotted the accused persons trying to drag one of the girls. Vikas had tried to intervene but the accused persons got into a scuffle and fled with the victim.

For around three days, police followed the routine protocol of uploading the victim’s details on Zipnet. Then, the case was transferred to the special staff of the Southwest district.

On February 13, just hours after the case was transferred, one of the accused, Rahul, was stopped by an assistant sub-inspector from the Emergency Response Vehicle in Dwarka Sector 9. The ASI claimed that he had stopped Rahul, who was in the red Tata Indica, as he had heard the wireless message about the kidnapping of a woman in a similar car, for three days.

When Rahul failed to produce registration papers of the vehicle, he was handed over to police, after which he confessed to the crime.

The vehicle in which the victim was kidnapped had been found to be registered in the name of a travel agency — Om Tours and Travels — where Rahul was employed as a driver.

The investigating officer, Inspector Sandeep Gupta, told the court that during questioning, Rahul confessed to having kidnapped a girl (the victim) from Qutub Vihar, raping her and throwing her body in the fields near Jhajjar. The woman had been beaten by the three with tools used to repair cars, which were recovered during the investigation.

The body was found by Haryana police officers in mustard fields of Karamora More in Rodai. A wallet belonging to Rahul was also found near the body.

On the day of the incident, Rahul had taken the car out around 7.45 am to pick up a passenger from Vikaspuri and kept the car with him till the commission of crime.