Kingpin of Jalandhar spa centre gangrape arrested

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 20

In a major success, the Commissionerate of Police on Thursday arrested a woman named Jyoti of Ludhiana, who was a mastermind behind the gangrape case that took place at Cloud Spa Centre, Model Town, Jalandhar, last week.

Divulging the details, Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said the police teams have arrested kingpin Jyoti (30), a resident of New Patel Nagar, Vaddi Habbowal from Jalandhar bus stand, adding that another person, Sohit Sharma (29), a resident of Shaheed Bhagat Singh Nagar, was already arrested by the police a week ago.

The CP further added that a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted in this case, which was working round-the-clock to probe the whole incident and arrest the accused. “During investigation, Jyoti was found to be the kingpin, who revealed that she had brought the victim from Ludhiana to this spa centre where four persons raped her. She also revealed that she had been lodged in Ludhiana Jail as she was already booked in two different cases of the NDPS Act and was out on bail. Notably, she was running a salon and is presently working in an export company,” added Bhullar.

He also stated that the raids were on to arrest the other accused, Ashish Bahal, a resident of Amritsar district, Arshad Khan and Inder alias Bunty, residents of Jalandhar. He also mentioned that the police remand of the kingpin Jyoti would be sought from the court to ensure in-depth investigation in this case and to arrest the remaining suspects. He stated that the SIT would furnish its investigation in a time-bound manner.