A 30-year-old woman, who was reported to be missing since Friday morning, was gang raped by her friend and his associates who later killed her and dumped her body in a Delhi Development Authority nursery early Saturday, police said.
The body was spotted by the security guard behind some bushes in the nursery around 8.20 a.m. in south Delhi's Vasant Kunj area. The body was in a semi-naked condition with the hands and legs tied with ropes.
"The victim was gang raped before being murdered. It seems that the accused had also sodomised her and inserted wooden sticks inside her private parts before strangulating her to death," a police official investigating the incident told IANS.
He added that the victim was a resident of Fatehpur Beri in South Delhi and had left her home around 9.30 a.m Friday. "When she didn't return home till late night her husband approached us and filed a missing complaint."
The woman was the sole earner in her family.
Her husband, both of whose legs were damaged a few months ago in a road accident, informed police that she left home Friday morning to go to the factory where she used to do tailoring.
He lodged a complaint at Fatehpur Beri police station.
The victim, mother of three children including a 13-year-old daughter, reportedly had extra marital affairs with three of her male friends.
Police said that they have got some clues about one friend and his associates who are absconding.
Police refused to reveal the names of the accused.
"The reason behind the brutal act is yet to be ascertained," said the official.
