A 19-year-old first-year student at Delhi University (DU), a native of Jaunpur district, has filed a complaint alleging that she was drugged and gang-raped by three men repeatedly over four days in a rented room in Lucknow's Sushant Golf City police station area. Two of the accused are known to the survivor and hail from her village.
Incident Details
The survivor stated that she was persuaded by one of the perpetrators to disembark from a train in Lucknow while traveling from Jaunpur to Delhi. She initially lodged a report at the Anand Vihar Railway Station police under a 'zero FIR', and the case was transferred to Lucknow police on May 23. Lucknow police have formed four teams and registered the case under charges of gang rape, wrongful confinement, causing hurt by poison, and criminal intimidation against two named accused and one unidentified person.
Sequence of Events
According to the survivor's FIR, she traveled to her native village in Jaunpur district during holidays and left for Delhi on May 15. After boarding the train from Jafarabad railway station that night, she contacted an old acquaintance, 20-year-old Shivam Yadav, via message during the journey. Shivam met her at Charbagh railway station in Lucknow along with another man, identified as 19-year-old Sunny Yadav. She got off the train after they persuaded her to break her journey in Lucknow.
The two men then took her by cab to a room near a private hospital in the Sushant Golf City police station area. According to the complaint, she was given cold coffee, after which she began feeling drowsy. She alleged that she was sexually assaulted and raped multiple times during the night of May 15-16. On May 16, she was assaulted again by the second man, and the assaults continued over the next two days, including by a third unidentified man who was brought to the room. She was threatened with death if she resisted or spoke about the incident.
Aftermath and Investigation
The complainant said she was later taken back to Charbagh railway station, where a general ticket was purchased, and she was left on the platform on May 18. She boarded a train to Delhi, during which she informed her family and contacted the railway helpline 139. The Railway Protection Force (RPF) was alerted. Upon arrival at Anand Vihar railway station on May 19, she was met by railway staff and taken to Hedgewar Hospital in Delhi for a medical examination.
Police records state that the medical legal case (MLC) recorded an alleged history of sexual assault by three men in Lucknow on May 16 and May 17, multiple times, and noted that the complainant reported being intoxicated with an unknown substance. Counselling support was arranged through a Sakhi One Stop Centre counsellor. Medical samples were collected, sealed, and taken into possession as evidence. A seizure videography was conducted but could not be uploaded due to signal issues and was saved on a mobile device.
Based on the complaint and counselling report, Railway Police at PS-AVRS, Delhi, registered Zero FIR No. 85/2026 under Sections 70(1) (gang rape), 123 (causing hurt by poison), 127(3) (wrongful confinement), and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023, against Shivam, Sunny, and an unidentified person. Delhi Police stated that the alleged crime scene falls under the jurisdiction of Sushant Golf City police station in Lucknow, and the papers were to be forwarded for further investigation.
The complainant told police she can identify the two named men and the third unidentified suspect if produced before her, and sought strict legal action.
Police Response
Additional DCP, South Zone, Vasanth Kumar, told TOI that an FIR under the same sections as the zero FIR was registered afresh in the Sushant Golf City police station. Preliminary probe revealed that Shivam and Sunny both belong to the same village in Jaunpur as the survivor. Five teams have been formed to arrest them, and their family members are being questioned to identify possible hideouts. Sunny worked as a delivery boy with an e-commerce company, while Shivam worked at a coffee shop and was acquainted with the survivor for the past four years.
