Third arrest made in Hanskhali rape case
The Hindu
This is CBI’s first arrest in the case of a minor girl’s rape and subsequent death in Nadia district’s Hanskhali
CBI sleuths on Saturday arrested one person from Ranaghat in West Bengal's Nadia district for his alleged involvement in the case of a minor girl’s rape and subsequent death in Hanskhali area, a senior official of the agency said. This is CBI's first arrest in the case.
Two other accused in the case, one of them son of a local TMC leader in Nadia, were earlier apprehended by the State police.
"The suspect held today, a friend of the local leader’s son, had been hiding in Ranaghat near National-Highway 34. We traced him via mobile tower dump technology. We will be questioning him," the CBI official said when contacted.
He had fled Hanskhali with his mother soon after the case came to light, he stated.
Tower dump technology is used to find information about cellphones active in a particular area.
A minor girl was allegedly gangraped at the birthday party of the TMC member's son, the prime suspect in the case, on April 4.
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