Overview
- The 19-year-old Delhi University student says she was travelling from Jaunpur to Delhi and was persuaded to get off the Suheldev Express at Lucknow’s Charbagh station on May 15, after which she was taken to a rented room and alleges she was drugged and assaulted.
- Railway officers traced the woman on the train after she alerted her family, and a zero FIR and medical examination were recorded at Anand Vihar in Delhi with samples seized as evidence.
- The case file was transferred to Sushant Golf City police in Lucknow and, by May 24, an FIR was registered naming Shivam Yadav, Sunny Yadav and an unidentified person on charges that include gang rape, wrongful confinement and administering intoxicants.
- Police say one named suspect worked at a coffee shop and had known the survivor for years and that the complaint alleges sedatives were mixed into coffee; investigators have formed multiple teams and are questioning relatives while searching for the accused.
- The use of a zero FIR allowed immediate action by railway police and the transfer of evidence to local investigators, and the next steps to watch are arrests, forensic results from the samples taken in Delhi, and the Lucknow probe's progress on locating the unnamed suspect.