Telangana: Man who plotted rape of Bengal teen nabbed

Hyderabad: Three months after a 19-year-old student from West Bengal was gangraped in the city, police on Saturday arrested the perpetrator, small-time choreographer Preeth Shergill. His associates, and a woman who led the victim to Shergill are absconding, police said. DCP North, B. Sumathi, said the victim had flown to the city for sight-seeing. When she was about to take a cab from the Shamshabad airport, she met one Pinky Roy. They agreed to share a cab and reached a hotel to stay. Pinky suggested that they could see the city together, and that her friend, Shergill, had a car and would take them around.

Police said they shifted to another hotel at Ameerpet from where Shergill picked them up in a car (AP11R 8314). After travelling for a while, Preeth gestured to Pinky to leave the car. After she got down, Preeth drove the girl to his apartment in West Marredpally, saying that he had some work. “There he offered her a soft drink after consuming which she felt drowsy. When she tried to leave, he snatched her cash and jewellery and sexually assaulted her. At midnight, his friend Suraj alias Niraj came to the flat and sexually assaulted her. Two more friends of Preeth assaulted her,” the DCP said.

On February 17, they tied her to a chair naked and filmed her on Preeth’s mobile. Then Preeth saw her writing her mother’s mobile number and a note saying that she needed help and threw it into a neighbour’s  balcony. Preeth immediately deleted the recording and threw her out of the house. “The girl hired a cab to the airport and lodged a complaint with the airport police. A case under charges of rape, robbery, kidnap was registered and after medical examination, she flew back to Kolkata.