A 25-year-old German woman was allegedly raped in Hyderabad on Monday by a man who offered the survivor and her German friend to show them around the city in his car.
The police said the accused chauffeured the duo along with five others –all minors — in the car and tricked the others into de-boarding the car after some time. He then sped away to an isolated location with the woman and sexually assaulted her, the police said.
“It is not a gang rape. The accused man managed to drive away with the survivor and rape her. We are on the lookout for the accused,” a senior Rachakonda police officer told indianexpress.com.
According to the police, the survivor and her friend arrived in Hyderabad on March 4 to visit a friend who studied with them in Italy.
According to the officer, at around 6.20 pm Monday, a group of people from Yakuthpura, including the accused, saw the German nationals while they were roaming around in a rented car. They wished each other and the group enquired where the foreigners were proceeding. The accused, pretending to be a good host, offered to take them around and drop them at places wherever they wanted to go.
“In the car, there were five minor boys who are friends of the accused. All eight of them proceeded further in the car to different locations for a couple of hours, took photos, and had food. At a certain place, the accused asked everyone to get out of the car so that they could go a little ahead to take some photos. Surprisingly, the survivor’s male friend also got down. The accused, with the German woman in the car, drove ahead for about 150 metres and sexually assaulted her. It was about 8 pm. After 15-20 minutes, they came back on the same route and the victim got out of the car, seeing her friend. The accused and his friends then fled the scene,” the officer said.
Based on the victim’s complaint, the police have registered a case under Section 64 (punishment for rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and are investigating the case. The survivor has been sent for medical examination while special police teams have launched a hunt for the suspects. The police are examining footage from the CCTV cameras installed in the area to close in on the accused.
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