MUMBAI: A 20-year-old woman working for a catering firm was gangraped by four people in Shivaji Nagar area of Govandi while she was returning home from work around 4am on Friday.
Three persons, two of them minors, have been arrested, and a police team is headed for UP to nab the fourth suspect.
Police said the four spotted the girl near the old BEST depot and one of the men, who knew her, questioned her about returning home at that hour and said he wanted to talk to her. As the girl went along, he took her to an empty house's mezzanine floor. His friends followed them and they took turns to rape her before fleeing.
According to a police officer, when the girl tried to shout out for help, the men gagged her.
Once the men fled the place, the traumatised girl called police over the phone and lodged a complaint. A team of women officers recorded her FIR and identified the four accused, who were from the same vicinity. Senior inspector Arjun Rajane of Shivaji Nagar police said they immediately formed around ten teams and sent them to locations. Police arrested the trio from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus where they were planning to take a train out of the city.
The accused have been booked under IPC sections for rape and sexual assault.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
