Muktsar police have arrested Gurinder, alias, Jojo, in connection with the abduction and rape of a Dalit girl on March 25.
Following a complaint, Malaut Police had on March 30 booked the accused, and were on look out for him, who was allegedly absconding.
Police sources told that the accused was arrested on Friday night, but refused to give further details.
Gurinder, 27, a resident of Kandu Khera village, reportedly abducted the victim, a resident of the same village, from outside a computer centre in Malaut, where she was an employee. He took her to Tapa Khera village and allegedly raped her.
The incident of abduction has been captured on CCTV camera installed at the computer centre.
Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Manvinder Veer Singh said the victim was very scared and wanted the accused to be hanged. “She has threatened that if the accused was not arrested she will hang herself to death,” he added.
Sumit Kumar, the owner of the computer centre and also a witness of abduction, said, “The youth had come to meet the victim. They were chatting so we thought he was known to her. But soon he tried to abduct the girl, and when we protested, he started fighting with us. The entire episode is recorded by CCTV camera.”
Co-accused Arrested
Muktsar Police on Sunday arrested the co-accused in connection with the alleged abduction and rape of a Dalit woman, from Malout bus stand.
Sandeep Singh, who hails from Khandu Khera village in Muktsar, was arrested in the early hours on Sunday from Malout bus stand, a Muktsar police official said.
He was driving the car which was used to abduct the victim, they said, adding the car has been seized.
Two days back, the main accused in the case, Gurinder, aged around 25, had surrendered before a court in Muktsar.
The woman, a Dalit, was dragged by Gurinder from a computer centre in Malout in Muktsar.
The CCTV footage showed the accused forcibly dragging the woman, said to be in her early 20s, out of her office in broad daylight on March 25.
The woman is seen struggling to break free from her alleged abductor.
After abducting her, the accused took her to Tapa Khera village in Muktsar district and allegedly raped her.
About five days after the incident, the woman had got an FIR registered in the case after which the police were on a lookout for the accused.
Earlier, the Scheduled Caste Commission had taken serious note of the incident and asked the SSP to file a report on the matter.
