Navsari girl’s suicide case: Stalker in Surat detained

SURAT: The joint team of police investigating the suicide of 18-year-old Navsari girl in a coach on Gujarat Queen Express in Valsad has detained a man who was caught on CCTV camera stalking the deceased at Surat railway station a few hours before she was found dead.
A team of Ahmedabad crime branch detained the youth from the city and took him to Ahmedabad for questioning.The youth appeared to have followed the victim from Surat GSRTC bus stop to railway station and was suspected of making obscene gestures to her as well.
According to police, the Ahmedabad DCB visited the city along with other agencies to investigate the girl’s alleged rape case. Cops detected a man wearing shorts holding a mobile phone in his hand following the girl from Surat ST bus stand and saw him going up to the railway station. He was seen walking behind her till the railway platform and also making obscene gestures as well in the footage.
Police found that the man is a bakery worker and lives in nearby slums. Sources in the police have informed that the man is a native of Hyderabad and works in a bakery in the city. Cops claimed that he is not comfortable in speaking Hindi or Gujarati. Cops are trying to find out his motive behind following the girl. Police claimed that it is not yet clear if he is involved in any crime in connection with the girl’s death.
Police sources also claimed that two men, who are seen in couple of CCTV footage near Vaccine Institute ground after the alleged rape incident, were also detained by the Vadodara police for questioning. One of them is an auto rickshaw driver.
On Monday evening, a team from Ahmedabad crime branch and Vadodara crime branch again visited the Vaccine Institute ground and nearby areas for investigation. Police traced a man named Imran, who works in a call centre in Karnataka and had talked with the girl for around 36 seconds on the day she was allegedly raped.