‘Bhai, take out your gun’: How 3 men dragged Delhi teen aside, raped her

“The man showed a black gun. Then he kept it back in his pocket. Then both of them took out knives and then took me to a dark place,” the girl said in her statement to the police.

The sequence of events detailed in the FIR – a copy of which was seen by The Indian Express – preceded the alleged assault on Monday.

‘Raped at knifepoint’

In the FIR the girl confirmed it was her birthday.

“I wanted to offer prayers at Kalkaji Mandir in Delhi so I told my friend to take me there. My mother, a cook, was at work, so I told my elder sister I was going there with my friend. We left around 5 pm in an auto and reached there around 5.45 pm,” she said.

Around 7 pm, as per the FIR, the duo went to the park to sit for a while before going to ISKCON temple.

“We sat on a bench and opened a packet of chips. Suddenly, three men, aged between 30 and 35, caught hold of my friend and slapped him. When we asked who they were, they said they were policemen. They told us we were not allowed to be there,” the girl said.

According to the FIR, the girl’s friend was taken to another corner of the park by one of the men. She recalled the names the men used for one another – Asif, Hemu and Dipu.

Police cordon off areas near the park where the rape may have occurred.

Hemu and Dipu were later identified as brothers, Hemant and Mukesh.

The Indian Express had reported that Asif was an alleged police informant.

She also recalled what they wore and described Asif as the ‘healthiest (heavyset)’ among the three. She alleged that Asif raped her on park bench while holding a knife to her neck and asked ‘Hemu’ to keep watch. She was then raped by Hemant then Mukesh.

The accused then brought her friend back.

“They gave us our phones and told us to go away quickly or they’d kill us. They told us to not tell anyone and took us out of the park. I told my friend about the rape and he called the PCR. After that, police arrived,” she told Delhi Police.

After the attack

According to a police officer, after the assault, Asif initially went to the Okhla mandi, where he sold vegetables, before heading towards his home.

Sources said he realised he would be caught by the police and so switched off his phone and tried to flee on his bike. Police said they tracked and arrested him in a shootout on Tuesday.

Police said Mukesh and Hemant went to an eatery before going back to their home in Sriniwaspuri. They then allegedly washed their clothes to get rid of evidence.

They were arrested the same day.

Police said the three men allegedly used a combination of police language, including terms like ‘janab‘, and threats to convince the teen and her friend that they were cops.