<p>The second suspect in the brutal rape of the five year-old girl was arrested in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district on Monday. After his arrest, police have now said the victim was gang raped.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Pradeep Ram, 19, who was hiding in his uncle’s house at Badhaiya area in the district, was arrested by a team of Delhi Police and their Bihar counterpart, said Neeraj Kumar, commissioner of police.<br /><br />Pradeep was produced before a chief judicial magistrate in Lakhisarai and the court granted a three-day transit remand og the accused to Delhi Police. He was brought in to the Capital by Monday evening and police are grilling him.<br /><br />“We have got information from our team in Bihar that Pradeep has confessed to the crime. He is an illiterate,” Kumar said.<br /><br />While on his way to the Capital, Pradeep, told reporters that he has “committed a big mistake.”<br /><br />Prabhakar, deputy commissioner of police (east) — who is heading the investigation — told Deccan Herald, “Pradeep has admitted to the crime before Bihar Police during preliminary interrogation. We have now invoked the sections concerning gang rape in the case.”<br /><br />Police said Pradeep, who hails from Sheikhupura district in Bihar, lives in rented accommodation at Loni area in Ghaziabad.<br /><br />He and Manoj Kumar are friends and have also worked together. Pardeep came to the Capital four years ago and was working as a mason.<br /><br />Police came to know about his involvement after they interrogating Manoj, 22, who was arrested at his in-law’s house in Muzaffarpur on Saturday.<br /><br />Manoj, who is in judicial remand till May 4, said Pradeep came to his house at Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi on April 15 and they had consumed alcohol.<br /><br />Drunk, Pradeep then asked Manoj to “arrange a call girl for fun” but seeing the victim playing outside her house, they lured her with a pack of chocolates and assaulted her.<br />Scared of being identified, both then planned to eliminate her. They strangled her and assuming that she was dead, both fled for their native places.<br /><br />Meanwhile, police said they have to verify lot of things. They need to grill them simultaneously and clarify their separate versions by making them confront.<br />“We are interrogating Pradeep and trying to ascertain the exact details in the case,” said a police officer.<br /></p>
<p>The second suspect in the brutal rape of the five year-old girl was arrested in Bihar’s Lakhisarai district on Monday. After his arrest, police have now said the victim was gang raped.<br /><br /></p>.<p>Pradeep Ram, 19, who was hiding in his uncle’s house at Badhaiya area in the district, was arrested by a team of Delhi Police and their Bihar counterpart, said Neeraj Kumar, commissioner of police.<br /><br />Pradeep was produced before a chief judicial magistrate in Lakhisarai and the court granted a three-day transit remand og the accused to Delhi Police. He was brought in to the Capital by Monday evening and police are grilling him.<br /><br />“We have got information from our team in Bihar that Pradeep has confessed to the crime. He is an illiterate,” Kumar said.<br /><br />While on his way to the Capital, Pradeep, told reporters that he has “committed a big mistake.”<br /><br />Prabhakar, deputy commissioner of police (east) — who is heading the investigation — told Deccan Herald, “Pradeep has admitted to the crime before Bihar Police during preliminary interrogation. We have now invoked the sections concerning gang rape in the case.”<br /><br />Police said Pradeep, who hails from Sheikhupura district in Bihar, lives in rented accommodation at Loni area in Ghaziabad.<br /><br />He and Manoj Kumar are friends and have also worked together. Pardeep came to the Capital four years ago and was working as a mason.<br /><br />Police came to know about his involvement after they interrogating Manoj, 22, who was arrested at his in-law’s house in Muzaffarpur on Saturday.<br /><br />Manoj, who is in judicial remand till May 4, said Pradeep came to his house at Gandhi Nagar in east Delhi on April 15 and they had consumed alcohol.<br /><br />Drunk, Pradeep then asked Manoj to “arrange a call girl for fun” but seeing the victim playing outside her house, they lured her with a pack of chocolates and assaulted her.<br />Scared of being identified, both then planned to eliminate her. They strangled her and assuming that she was dead, both fled for their native places.<br /><br />Meanwhile, police said they have to verify lot of things. They need to grill them simultaneously and clarify their separate versions by making them confront.<br />“We are interrogating Pradeep and trying to ascertain the exact details in the case,” said a police officer.<br /></p>
