Suspects produced by Hyderabad police at a press conference today.
A 22-year-old woman working at a software company in Hyderabad was raped on Friday, allegedly by two men who were in a cab that she hired outside a popular shopping mall.
Both suspects were produced by the police at a press conference today, their faces masked.
After the woman got into the car, the police says she was driven to a forested area. When she tried to use her cellphone to call for help, they snatched it away, the police claimed.
The men said today that they were confident that the woman would not report rape. They were right.
She was dropped off near her hostel five hours later. When she went to the police for help, she said that she had been kidnapped and released after she shouted for help.
But the friend who she had tried to call had already phoned the police to alert them that the woman appeared to be in trouble. The police officers also spotted blood on the woman's clothes and began investigating the possibility of rape.
They were able to identify the car through security cameras at a school near where the rape was committed. Though the footage was blurred, a car was identified as the one that may have been used for the attack.
Experts at the National Investigating Agency helped enhance the images which identified the car as a Volvo.
"There are only 77 cars of that model in Hyderabad and our officers painstakingly checked out each of them,'' said Cyberabad police commissioner CV Anand.
The police says the two suspects, Satish and Venkateshwarlu, set out that night with the intention of finding a woman they could take advantage of.
The attack underscores the vulnerability of women in some of India's biggest cities despite the introduction of tough new anti-rape laws after the fatal gang-rape of a young student on a moving bus in Delhi in December.
In August, a 22-year-old photographer was gang-raped in the heart of Mumbai while shooting a deserted mill with a male colleague. (
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