AGRA: A 23-year-old woman in her complaint to the police has alleged that she was gang-raped on the Yamuna expressway near Kuberpur in Agra district in the early hours of Wednesday while she was returning to her native place in Auraiya district from Greater Noida.The woman, who works in a private garments company in Greater Noida, had boarded a shared cab from sector 37. She told police that on not getting a direct bus to Auraiya, she had to take the taxi around 8.30 pm to reach Firozabad. There were six other passengers in the vehicle. Upon reaching Firozabad, all the passengers alighted and the the driver offered to drop her off at Auraiya, which she accepted. “However, he then called two other men after stopping in an isolated area after which they raped me by turns,” she told police.The woman approached Etmadpur police station on Wednesday morning to report the case.Assistant commissioner of police Ravi Kumar Gupta said, “The woman informed us that two other men known to the driver boarded the van moving towards her destination. Later, all three of them raped her after parking the vehicle at an isolated place. They left her near Etmadpur, from where she took an auto-rickshaw to Firozabad. The incident took place between 1 am and 4 am on Wednesday.”The accused have been identified as 28-year-old driver Jaiveer Singh, resident of Agra district; Hemant Kumar, 20, and Ramraj, 46 – both residents of Firozabad. All the three have been arrested, said Etmadpur police station SHO Sarvesh Kumar.Agra police commissioner Preetinder Singh said in a statement, “An FIR has been registered against three men under IPC section 376-D (gangrape) based on the complaint of the victim.CCTV cameras at toll plazas were used to spot the vehicle, which has been seized. All the three accused are being interrogated. The woman was sent for a medical examination.”The entire matter is being investigated in detail, Singh added.(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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