2 UP cops, 2 CRPF personnel held for ‘gangrape’ of woman

Amroha: Two Uttar Pradesh Police personnel and two CRPF personnel have been arrested for the alleged gangrape of a woman from Haryana at a farmhouse in Amroha district, an official said .

The alleged incident took place in the Hasanpur area of Amroha. A sub-inspector and a head constable posted at the Hasanpur police station and a sub-inspector and a head constable of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have been arrested in connection with the incident.

According to Superintendent of Police (SP) Lakhan Singh Yadav, the woman, aged about 24 years and a resident of Haryana’s Fatehabad, has alleged that she was contacted on September 20 by a female acquaintance, who asked her to meet CRPF Inspector Mohit, a resident of Saurang village in Muzaffarnagar district, to visit religious places in Amroha. The rape survivor allegedly met Mohit at Haryana’s Sonipat on September 21.

From there, they travelled to Meerut, where Mohit was joined by his colleague, CRPF Head Constable Lalaram Yadav, a resident of Rajasthan’s Alwar. On the evening of September 22, the two men allegedly took the woman to Hasanpur in a car and picked up Sub-Inspector Sanjay Tomar on their way.

The trio then took her to a farmhouse on the Atrasi-Hasanpur road, where they rented two rooms.

According to the complaint, police Head Constable Pramod had arranged food and liquor for the group.

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