Anuhya was abducted, held hostage before done to death
HYDERABAD: The spine-chilling details of Esther Anuhya's torture and death are slowly coming to light with the Mumbai Police intensifying their investigation and taking into custody five suspects, including three cab drivers and two brothel organisers.
Sources associated with the probe told that Anuhya was abducted early on January 5 while she was on her way to her hostel from the railway station.
'She was confined to a room in Mumbai's notorious red light area Kamatipura for five days. She was beaten up and repeatedly raped,' the sources said, adding that she was killed on January 9.
The 23-year-old Machilipatnam native and an employee of TCS, Anuhya went missing on January 5 after alighting from the Visakhapatnam-LTT Express train in Mumbai.
Investigators found that one of the suspects had made a call from one of Anuhya's two mobiles from Kamatipura where women are trafficked in large numbers from all over the country.
Mumbai Police sources said Anuhya got down from the train at the Lokmanya Tilak Terminus around 4.45 am on January 5. Minutes later, she hired a cab to Andheri West, where she used to reside. However, the driver took her in the wrong direction and after a few minutes' drive, three more persons got into the cab.
Sources said Anuhya might have tried to call either her parents or friends after suspecting the intentions of the cab driver and his pals. But the accused snatched her mobile phones and switched them off. They took her to a house near Kamatipura, where she was confined for five days.
'On the night of January 8, the accused thrashed her brutally after she resisted their attempts to sexually assault her. She fell unconscious and remained so the next day too. That was when the accused took her to an isolated place near Kanjurmarg and murdered her by pouring chemicals and setting her on fire,' the sources said.
'The last call from Anuhya's mobile phone was made by an unknown person on January 9. Who made the call and who received it will be known during investigation,' said a police officer.
News Posted: 21 January, 2014
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