New Delhi: Prospects of solving the sensational rape case involving a Swiss diplomat have brightened with the arrest of a youth in connection with a shootout earlier this year at the World Trade Centre in Connaught Place in New Delhi, police sources said today (November 11).

26 year old Navneet Randhawa, belonging to an affluent family of Yamuna Nagar in Haryana and at present residing in Mayur Vihar in East Delhi, is being questioned about his involvement in the October 14 rape of the 35-year-old diplomat, they said.

"We are trying to ascertain whether he was involved in the rape case as there are some indications to suggest so," sources said.

The convent-educated youth was arrested yesterday (November 10) in connection with the shootout at the Centre, they said, adding he has allegedly confessed to his involvement in that case.

The Swiss diplomat had been raped after being abducted in her own car from the parking lot of Sirifort Auditorium where the victim had gone to watch a movie during the India International Film Festival.

PTI