The five youth who are accused of gangraping a 19-year-old telephone operator at the defunct Shakti Mills on July 31 and also suspected to have victimised several other girls ended up leaving behind a crucial piece of evidence that the police will now use to nail them in the case.
After gangraping the girl, one of the accused made a phone call to another accused and called him to the spot. The victim had mentioned details of this phone call in her statement (The Asian Age has a copy) to the Bhandup police in the first week of September.
Investigators have collected the details of this phone call. “This call will prove as a crucial piece of evidence against the accused and help us in establishing the exact sequence of the events, thus proving the presence of the accused at the spot at the same time,” said an officer requesting anonymity.
Meanwhile, the victim identified the fifth accused Ashfaq Dawood Shaikh during the Test Identification Parade (TIP) conducted in the Byculla jail. “The result of the TIP was positive,” confirmed a crime branch officer.