Out on bail, rape accused shoots 25-yr-old victim in Rajasthan

A 25-year-old woman has been hospitalised after she was shot in Kotputli-Behror district of Rajasthan allegedly by a man accused of raping her last year.

The accused, Rajendra Yadav, who was out on bail, had threatened the woman to withdraw the case against him.

“Yadav was arrested in the case that time but was recently out on bail. He started threatening the victim to withdraw the case,” the first information report (FIR), filed by the woman’s family following Saturday’s attack, said.

On 24th February, Yadav, along with two accomplices attacked the victim who was returning from work with her brother.

“The main accused Rajendra Yadav and his aides, Mahipal Gurjar and Rahul Gurjar, followed the victim and her brother on a two-wheeler and launched an attack. While Rajendra shot the woman in the back, the other two accused also stabbed them. The three then fled the spot,” police said.

“Since the victim did not withdraw the case, they launched the brutal attack on her last night,” police added.

While two suspects have been arrested, the main accused, Yadav, is on the run.

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