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Danish woman gangrape: five accused sent to judicial custody

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 23 2014 | 7:18 PM IST
Five persons arrested in connection with the gangrape of a 51-year-old Danish tourist were today sent to judicial custody till February 6 by a Delhi court.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Sudhanshu Kaushik remanded Mahender alias Ganja, Mohammed Raza, Raju Singh, Arjun and Raju in 14 days of judicial custody after they were produced before him on expiry of five days' of police custody.
"The accused are sent to JC (judicial custody) till. They be produced on February 6," the court said, adding that the police did not seek their further custodial interrogation.
The police told the court that seven persons, including two juveniles, have been nabbed and one is still at large.
The two juveniles are facing inquiry before the Juvenile Justice Board here.
During the proceedings, the police also apprised the court about the progress of the probe. It said that the doctors in Denmark have confirmed that the woman was raped and it is exploring every possibility to call her to India for joining the probe and also for the identification of the accused.

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The police had told the court that the accused, all vagabonds, had robbed and gangraped the victim at knife-point on January 14 night after leading her to a secluded place close to the Divisional Railway Officers Club near the New Delhi railway station.
The accused were booked under sections 376 (2)(G) (gangrape), 397 (robbery or dacoity, with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt) and 392 (robbery) of the IPC.
The Danish tourist, who had come to India on January 1, had first gone to Agra. She returned to Delhi on January 13 and checked in a Paharganj hotel here.
On January 14, she went to visit a museum near Connaught Place but lost her way back to her hotel following which she approached the group of men asking for directions who waylaid her and then robbed and gangraped her for around three hours.

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First Published: Jan 23 2014 | 7:18 PM IST

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