Mumbai police filed chargesheet in Mumbai photo journalist gang rape case

Mumbai: Mumbai police on Thursday filed a chargesheet against four accused in last month’s gang-rape of a 23-year-old photo journalist.

The photo journalist was allegedly raped by the five accused when she had gone to the deserted Shakti Mills compound on August 22 with a male colleague on assignment.

The accused– Salim Ansari, Vijay Jadhav, Mohammed Kasim Hafiz Shaikh alias Kasim Bengali, Siraj Rehman Khan and the minor–had tied up the victim’s male companion with belts and allegedly raped her.

Police had claimed it had a “water-tight” case against all the five accused.