GREATER NOIDA: Police have arrested a software engineer more than six months after his wife, a 34-year-old Mumbai-based woman, alleged rape and torture by him and four of his friends . Police said the accused is a resident of Dadri in Greater Noida.

The woman had reportedly met the accused Sanjeev Srivastava on May 15 through a social networking website. The woman was then brought to Greater Noida and they got married. However, soon after that Srivastava allegedly took away jewellery and cash worth Rs 18 lakh from her. He also refused to register the marriage in court. The woman alleged in her complaint that he allegedly called four of his friends to their house and all five gang-raped the woman.

Following the crime, the woman ran from pillar to post to get an FIR registered against the accused. However, police only lodged a case after nearly two months of the incident but failed to make any arrests. Tired of police apathy, the victim decided to go on a hunger strike outside the SSP's office on December 16. She also wrote a letter to the district magistrate seeking justice. Gautam Budh Nagar SSP, Preetinder Singh, finally ordered the arrest of the accused after which he was taken into custody.

