Overview
- A Special Investigation Team is leading raids in Uttar Pradesh to locate the prime accused, who switched off his phone and is evading arrest.
- Police say the vehicle used in the crime has been identified as belonging to the suspect’s sister, though it has not yet been recovered.
- Investigators report the girl had known the 22-year-old for about two months and had arranged to meet him near Sector 18 market.
- Officers suspect she was given sedative-laced drinks and assaulted inside a moving car as the group traveled toward Vrindavan.
- An FIR under sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act has been registered, and the student underwent a medical exam but is not fit to give a statement.