Techie allegedly raped by cab drivers in Hyderabad, two arrested

Mangalore Today News Network/DTV

Hyderabad, Oct 22: A 22-year-old woman working at a software company in Hyderabad was raped by two men who were in a cab that she hired outside a popular shopping mall on Friday night, the police said.

Two men who have been arrested were produced by the police at a press conference today.

 

They allegedly drove the young woman to a forested area. When she tried to use her cellphone to call for help, they snatched it away, the police claimed.

The men said today that they were confident that the woman would not report rape. They were right. After they discarded her near the hostel for working women where she recently moved, she went to the nearest police station and complained that she had been abducted by the two men.

But alert officers at the station spotted blood and helped the survivor undergo medical tests which confirmed rape.

They were able to identify the car through security cameras at a school near where the rape was committed. Though the footage was blurry, a Volvo was seen heading away from the school and then returning nearly an hour later.

Experts at the National Investigating Agency helped enhance the images which identified the car as a Volvo.

"There are only 77 cars of that model in Hyderabad and our officers painstakingly checked out each of them,’’ said Cyberabad police commissioner C V Anand.

The police says the two suspects, Satish and Venkateshwarlu, had hired the vehicle with the intention of finding a woman and attacking her.

The attack underscores the vulnerability of women in some of India’s biggest cities despite the introduction of tough new anti-rape laws after the fatal gang-rape of a young student on a moving bus in Delhi in December.

In August, a 22-year-old photographer was gang=raped in the heart of Mumbai while shooting a deserted mill with a male colleague.