Kolkata, Feb 18 (PTI) Police today arrested two persons in connection with the alleged rape of an Anglo-Indian woman at posh Park Street here and said they fabricated their identities while befriending women at night clubs. Sumit Bajaj and Rehman Khan alias Tusi, who masqueraded as Lavi Gidwani and some other persons whom the woman named, had befriended her at the night club, Joint Police Commissioner (Crime) Damayanti Sen told PTI. Police were looking for two others, whose identities had been established, she said. The woman had claimed that among the five who allegedly raped her in a car at gunpoint and threatened her while she was returning from a night club was Lavi Gidwani. Police after investigating had found that Gidwani was in Canada since January 2, while two others were found to be elsewhere, which had prompted it to say that there were 'inconsistencies' in the woman's statement. The woman in her mid thirties and a mother of two children, had filed an FIR with the Park Street police station four days after the incident. Sen said police collected the CCTV footage from the night club and spotted some persons around a car that night. "However, the persons named in the FIR by the woman did not match with the CCTV footage and it was ascertained that the offenders were masquerading under other names to mislead the victim," she said. (MORE)
