The Chandigarh Police, on Tuesday, 22 November, announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh for anyone who could provide information about the suspects in the 17 November gang-rape of a 22-year-old woman in Chandigarh, Hindustan Times reported.
The victim was allegedly gang-raped by three men after she hired a shared auto-rickshaw to go back to her paying guest accommodation in Mohali town, adjoining Chandigarh.
The police got the CCTV footage of the auto-rickshaw and its driver from a gas station in Sector 42 where the vehicle had stopped to get CNG refuelled. The pictures of the accused from this footage will be used on reward posters, which will be put up across the city.
The victim, who hails from Dehradun in Uttarakhand, had boarded the shared auto on Friday, 17 November, after attending her stenography class in Sector 37. According to the police, two men and the auto driver were already in the auto-rickshaw.
The victim told the police that the auto driver took the vehicle to the gas station for refueling and then turned towards Sector 52. He stopped the auto near a semi-deserted area and said the vehicle had broken down.
When the woman got out of the auto-rickshaw to take another one, the three men pulled her into the bushes and took turns to rape her. After that, they allegedly dumped the victim in Sector 53, the police said. (The Quint)
