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Sumedha Sharma
Tribune News Service
Gurugram, October 26
The confessions of four members of Bawaria gang arrested by Gurugram police in Mandpura gang-rape and robbery case has not only brought to fore the horrific tales of over 150 similar cases but also put UP and Haryana Police in the dock over alleged hasty arrests in high-profile cases.
The gang now known to be ‘axle gang’ had yesterday confessed to be responsible for Dingerheri gang-rape and robbery challenging SIT’s arrest of four youths and the victim’s testimony against them.
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Police said they have today taken responsibility for the Yamuna Expressway gang-rapes and murder in which UP Police has already arrested four men.
The gang also "claimed responsibility" for the Aligarh highway gang-rape of a mother and her daughter, a case which took UP by storm last year.
The Yamuna Expressway case was reported in May this year wherein four women were allegedly gang-raped and a man was shot dead by a group of robbers after deflating their car tyres.
The family was travelling from Jewar to Bulandshahr and stopped the car on the Yamuna Expressway suspecting flat tyres when they were attacked.
The police had within two days arrested four members of Bawariya gang even as the family was never satisfied with the arrest.
“We did it by planting nails on the road. The driver got down from the car to check and we ambushed them and held them at gunpoint and marched them to the fields where we gang-raped four women and had to shoot one man for resisting us. We took away jewellery, purses and mobiles from them,” reads the confession.
Similarly the group confessed to the infamous Ghaziabad-Aligarh highway robbery and gang-rape of a mother and her teenage daughter.
It was in July 2016 that a 37-year-old woman and her teenage daughter were dragged out of a car they were travelling in along the Ghaziabad-Aligarh highway and gang-raped for over two hours. The Noida-based
family of five were driving to Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh.
“Going by our modus operandi, we threw axle at the car which made a sound and the driver stopped to check and we overpowered the family and took them to the fields at gunpoint. We tied up and looted the male members and gang-raped the mother and daughter,” the gang said in its confession.
The gang has in addition to this confessed about over 150 incidents where not just cars but farmhouses, including one of an IG in UP, were attacked and robbery and gang-rape committed.
These incidents have been reported from various districts of Haryana, Rajasthan and UP.
“This is a major success as this gang was terrorising all these states and the number of cases they confess to and brutality involved makes this the biggest catch of Haryana Police in years,” Commissioner Sandep Khirwar said.
It took Gurugram police over a year and an army of informers in three states to catch the notorious gang.
“We were virtually living on roads till their arrest. An incident was reported in Manesar and then Bilaspur and we knew that it was one gang which did it.
“Similar incidents were reported from others states and modus operandi remained same. We were suspecting some tribal group being involved and zeroed on Hindu groups once all victims testified they spotting red sacred threads.
“A major lead however came during the navratras. This gang has a signature style of cooking and eating chicken at every crime spot. However, during one such incident during the navratras they got chicken but left it remembering the holy days.
“They were many Bawariya gangs and it took hundreds of informers in all three states to lead us to these relatively new entrants in the world of crime,” SIT member Inspector Yashwant Singh said.
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