Rape bid: Judicial remand of 7 accused extended

A local court on Saturday extended till July 21 the judicial custody of seven persons, including two cousins and gunners of BSP MLA Shahnwaz Rana, arrested for allegedly abducting and attempting to rape two Delhi girls last month.

Muzaffarnagar: A local court on Saturday
extended till July 21 the judicial custody of seven persons,
including two cousins and gunners of BSP MLA Shahnwaz Rana,
arrested for allegedly abducting and attempting to rape two
Delhi girls last month.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Vikas Goel has
extended the judicial remand of Saddam and Shazaib, the MLA`s
cousins, and five others after they were produced in court.

The MLA`s two gunners Narender Kumar and Jarrar Ahmad
are among the accused.

The two girls were returning to Delhi from Mussoorie
along with their two male friends on June 21 evening when they
stopped at a petrol pump to get their vehicle repaired where a
group of seven-eight youths abducted them in a car, according
to the complainants.
The youths took them to a house and tried to rape them
at gun point but the women managed to escape.

Rana was suspended from BJP following the incident.

PTI

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