New Delhi: A minor, the fourth accused has been arrested in the Hyderabad gangrape case, the police said today.
The fifth accused, Umair Khan, is still on the run and Hyderabad Police is trying to trace him.
This comes a day after two teenagers were taken into custody for allegedly raping the girl.
One accused has been identified as the son of a local leader of Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi party.
Meanwhile, the another accused who was arrested on Friday has been identified as Saduddin Malik.
In a shocking incident, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly gang-raped by five young men when she was returning home after a party in the Jubilee Hills area of Hyderabad on May 28.
#Hyderabad rape | Victim couldn’t reveal anything about culprits. She only revealed one name & spl teams were immediately formed to nab them. CCTV footage recovered. We’ve identified 5 culprits as per CCTV footage and as per the statement of the victim: Joel Davis, West Zone DCP pic.twitter.com/Cbp9xwWKmR
— ANI (@ANI) June 3, 2022
This is a developing story.