According to police, the incident occurred in Punasa area two nights ago. After the assault, the accused allegedly attempted to kill the woman by throwing her, along with her cot, into a nearby well.
He has replaced Lokesh M, who was shunted out after the death of an engineer, Yuvraj, after falling into a roadside ditch.
The Jammu South Zone Police said it has achieved further significant progress in the high-profile case earlier busted by Police Station Gandhi Nagar, involving an inter-district, inter-state and cross-border narcotics and arms syndicate following a deep, sustained and professional investigation.
The SIT took Thantri Rajeevaru into custody on Friday morning and questioned him through a team led by ADGP H Venkatesh, who supervises the SIT team.
Thakur said he is demanding the CCTV footage related to his arrest in Shahjahanpur and the period he was kept at Deoria Sadar Kotwali.
The team is headed by UP Home Secretary Bhagwan Swaroop, Deputy Inspector General of Police Chandraprakash and IPS officer Poonam.
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the murder of activist-journalist had arrested Devdikar last month from his hideout at Katras in Dhanbad district of Jharkhand.
Wife of slain MP Ehsan Jafri is challenging the Special Investigation Team's clean chit to the then Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi in the 2002 riots
Gauri Lankesh, a senior journalist, was murdered in her home in Bengaluru on September 5, 2017.
Rajeev Kumar, an IPS officer, was part of a Special Investigation Team set up by the state government to investigate the Saradha chit fund scam, before the Supreme Court handed over the case to the CBI in 2014.
