Chennai, Oct. 3 -- Two cops on duty arrested in Tiruvannamalai district on charges ofabducting and raping a young woman from Andhra Pradesh, a couple of days back, weredismissed from service.
Police said today that the two cops--Head Constables Sundar and Sureshraj, attached tothe Tiruvannamalai East Police Station, who were earlier placed under suspension, werenow dismissed from the police service.
The victim was returning home with her mother and a relative in a goods truck ladedwith vegetables after offering darshan at the famous Lord Arunachaleswarar Templein Tiruvannamalai two days back, when the two cops on night patrol duty, stoppedthe vehicle on the outskirts of the temple town to check the vehicle documents andabducted the woman....