Paranoia gripped Meerut after the alleged gangrape and conversion of a girl. Paranoia gripped Meerut after the alleged gangrape and conversion of a girl.

The seventh accused in the alleged abduction, gangrape and forceful conversion of a 20-year-old girl was arrested in Meerut in western Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday.

Police sources said Sanaullah, 60, was a suspect since he was missing from the day the complaint was filed.

A senior police official in Meerut, however, told Aaj Tak that Sanaullah has a heart ailment and was admitted in a hospital in Delhi when the incident is alleged to have happened. He refused to comment when quizzed on why he was still arrested.

The seventh arrest in the case also came despite the Uttar Pradesh Police finding anomalies in the statements of the girl. The cops last week said she was operated for ectopic pregnancy at Meerut Medical College on July 23 and not in Muzaffarnagar as she had said.

The girl had even named her accomplice, Kaleem, as her husband in the hospital records before the surgery.

On August 2, the girl's father filed a complaint that six people had abducted his daughter on July 23 and took her to a Madrassa where they allegedly raped and illegally confined her.

However, a senior UP government official countered the claim, saying the girl was admitted to the medical college on July 23 and was operated upon the same day.

