New Delhi: The 34-year-old woman raped and brutalised inside a stationary tempo in suburban Mumbai’s Sakinaka within the early hours of Friday has died while being treated at an area hospital.
A statement from Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray’s office decried the “shameful” and “highly condemnable” incident, and vowed to make sure the strictest punishment for the accused.
“This incident is very condemnable… it shames humanity. The accused are going to be given the harshest possible punishment and a fast-track court will handle the trial,” the statement said.
In a vile attack that bore a disturbing similarity to the assault on a young medico in Delhi in 2012, the lady was sexually assaulted and tortured with an iron rod.
A team of cops – alerted after the room received an emergency out in 3.30 am on Friday – found her lying during a pool of blood on Khairani Road. The caller said a lady was being beaten by a person , press agency PTI said. She was rushed to the government-run Rajawadi Hospital for treatment.
Day time visuals from the world show a busy highway , with quite a moderate amount of traffic buzzing up and down. Disturbing CCTV footage has also been secured by the police; grainy visuals seem to point out a person standing over what seems like body lying on the bottom .
A PTI report said preliminary inquiries found bloodstains inside the tempo, which was parked by the roadside during the assault.
One accused – 45-year-old Mohan Chouhan – has been arrested, PTI said, adding he had been arrested under charges of rape and plan to murder (which will now be revised to murder).
The National Commission for ladies has taken cognisance and expressed dismay at the “barbarity and atrocity” of the attack, directing the police “to immediately intervene…. an FIR must be filed”.
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