Prime suspect held for rape of 50-year-old

Two weeks after the gangrape and murder of a 50-year-old woman in Deonar,police Friday arrested the second suspect in the case.

The Deonar police had earlier arrested Deepak Gaikwad (35),who claimed that the recently arrested Arvind Deshmukh (27) had planned the rape and murder. Deshmukh has been absconding since August 30,when police found the victims body. Deshmukh was presented before a court Saturday and remanded in police custody till September 19.

We had kept a tab on a scrap dealer who frequently lent Deshmukh money, said senior inspector Manohar Vichare.

Deshmukh was arrested when he visited the scrap dealer Friday.

Deshmukh told police that he had fled to his girlfriends residence in Pune after the crime.

The deceased lived alone at a tenement adjoining the railway premises in Govandi and knew Deshmukh. Police said the victim had not responded to Deshmukhs

advances.

On August 30,Deshmukh and Gaikwad entered the victims tenement in Tata Nagar slums.

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Gaikwad told police that the victim was drunk and unconscious and that he and Deshmukh had repeatedly raped her. They were about to leave when Deshmukh decided to kill her,fearing that she would lodge a complaint. She was beaten to death with an iron rod,

police said.

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