Cops use cell data to crack gangrape case
Investigators are yet to identify the assailants who gangraped a girl from Northeast with the police scanning the call records of hundreds of mobile users who were receiving signal from some mobile towers in Dhaula Kuan area even as no arrests have been made in the case so far.
It has been five days since the 30-year old was abducted and gangraped by four assailants in Dhaula Kuan. Sources said the police is now relying on electronic surveillance to identify and nab the accused.
The south district police is trying to get the details of a suspect whose mobile phone is switched off and received last signal from the area around the crime spot. At least ten suspects have been picked up by the police for questioning. They were however released later as the police did not find anything concrete against them during questioning.
“We are using all sources to get a specific lead in the case. All possible efforts are being made to identify the culprits,” said an investigating official.
“We have prepared a list of phone numbers which were active in the area on the fateful night when the victim was abducted. Users whose movement was found between Dhaula Kuan and Mangolpuri were also identified and a few of them were questioned. But no evidence was found against them. We are focusing on a mobile phone number, which is switched off since the incident,” he said.
Deputy commissioner of police H.G.S. Dhaliwal said that the police was reconstructing the incident and identifying people, whose movement was found in the area. “Our teams are on to it and they are showing portraits of the two suspects to people. We have got a few leads in the case but we cannot discuss them at the moment,” he said.
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