Hyderabad Gang Rape Case: Son Of AIMIM MLA Detained, Cops Say All 6 Perpetrators To Be Booked Under IPC, POCSO Act

The Hyderabad police on Tuesday (Jun 7) detained the son of a legislator belonging to Asaduddin Owaisi's All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) for his involvement in the Hyderabad gang rape case.

The city police said that six persons have been apprehended in connection with the heinous gangrape of a teenage girl here last month.

''Six accused have been arrested in this case... Out of six, one is a major,'' Hyderabad Police Commissioner C V Anand told reporters Tuesday night.

The rest are juveniles, including one just one month short of 18 years of age, he said.

Anand said that the police having drawn out the sequence of events of May 28 based on evidence collected over the last one week and corroborated several times using different media including videos of the offence and CCTV footage.

The Commissioner, who said the suspects, five of them minors and one major, Saduddin Malik, had recorded the act on their mobile phones and circulated it first among themselves, ‘as if it was heroism’. The video was shared among friends in WhatsApp, from where it further landed on different social media platforms.

All the six will be booked under sections of the IT Act as well, apart from the rape charges under the Indian Penal Code and Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the commissioner added.

On queries on allegations of the Home Minister’s grandson’s involvement, Anand said police had not got any evidence of even his presence.

“It is a baseless allegation. If anyone has evidence, let them give it to us. We will take action,” he said.