Hyderabad: Police arrested second accused in connection with the Vanasthalipuram software engineer rape case and is being produced before the court on Thursday. He was apprehended at Chilakaluripeta in Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday night. The accused has been identified as Munagala Shivaji Reddy (33).
On July 30, police arrested the key accused, Goutham Reddy.
The incident came to light following a complaint by the victim in which she said that her childhood friend and a common friend sexually assaulted her in a restaurant-cum-bar in Vanasthalipuram where they met to celebrate her new software job.
A 24-year-old software employee was allegedly sexually assaulted by two men, including her childhood friend, at a party late on Monday. The Vanasthalipuram police arrested the key accused, Goutham Reddy, on Tuesday.
A case was registered under the Section 70(1) (gang rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the woman was taken to a hospital for medical examination.