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Hyderabad Foot Overbridge Rape: Watchman Arrested and Remanded

Officers invoked BNS Section 64 following a pre-dawn report at a bypoll checkpoint.

Overview

  • The assault occurred around 4 a.m. Friday on a foot overbridge near ESI Hospital in Erragadda, police said.
  • The survivor, a 51-year-old GHMC sanitation worker headed to AG Colony for her shift, sought help at a nearby Jubilee Hills bypoll checkpoint.
  • Investigators reviewed CCTV footage and identified the suspect as 45-year-old Namburi Raju, a watchman at an apartment in Model Colony.
  • Police arrested Raju the same day, produced him before a magistrate, and secured judicial remand under BNS Section 64 for rape.
  • The woman underwent a medical examination and received counseling at the Bharosa centre, according to officials.