Delhi Police Crime Branch has arrested the absconding hotelier, accused in alleged gang rape of a 21-year-old woman in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, from Haryana’s Karnal.
The Andaman and Nicobar Islands Police registered a case on 1 October on the complaint filed by a 21-year-old woman alleging that she was sexually abused by senior IAS officer and former chief secretary of the Union Territory Jitendra Narain and his associates Sandeep Singh alias Rinku, a hotel owner and Rishi, the then Labour Commissioner of Andaman. In this case, the then Chief Secretary Jitender Narain has already been arrested by Andaman and Nicobar Police. Andaman and Nicobar police had announced a reward of Rs 1 lakh on the arrest of hotel owner Sandeep Singh and Rishi, the then Labour Commissioner.
The woman lodged the complaint with the police on August 21 in which she gave a detailed account of the alleged sexual attack on her twice — in April and May — and requested for preserving the CCTV footage of the then chief secretary’s residence for evidence.
The Aberdeen police station in Andaman and Nicobar Islands registered the case and a Special Investigation Team headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police was formed to probe the serious allegation against Narain, who is at present posted as the chairman and managing director of the Delhi Financial Corporation.
