The police had on December 4, 2012 arrested Pulkit,

Amandeep, Sharad, Roopenshu and Vikas, all pursuing law from Jamia, after a complaint was lodged at the Defence Colony police station here on September 15 by the girl's parents. The girl's parents had told the police that their daughter, a class XI student, had not returned home after attending school on September 15, 2012. Initially, a case of kidnapping was registered by the police but when the girl was recovered after two months on November 27, 2012, she deposed that she had accompanied her friend Amit Gautam to his flat where she was held captive and gangraped by all the accused.