Dalit woman held ‘hostage, gangraped’ by Gurugram cop, four others

Sanjay Yadav

Gurugram, July 12

A 28-year-old Dalit woman was allegedly abducted and gangraped by four friends, including a Gurugram cop, after being held hostage for nine days.

The woman alleged she was kept in a room in Ballabhgarh and was injected sedatives. The accused also allegedly videographed rape and threatened her. An FIR has been registered at Sohna police station.

“We are verifying the facts and probe is on. We are conducting raids to nab the accused who will be arrested as early as possible,” said Sandeep Malik, ACP, Sohna.

According to the complaint filed by the victim, mother of one and resident of a village near Sohna, on July 30 one of her friends Chintu met her at temple in the morning. After five minutes, a white coloured car reached there with two of his friends Deepak and Sanju. They allegedly offered to drop her home and gave spiked water to her to drink. They drove towards Faridabad.

Kuldeep, a cop of Gurugram police, and deployed in a police chowki near Sohna was among the accused, it is alleged.

“When I became conscious I found myself in a room. At night, Kuldeep also joined them and all four raped me. Kuldeep also injected me with something and my body went numb. They took turns in raping me over nine days and kept injecting sedatives. They videographed the sexual assault and threatened me with weapons. On July 8, they asked me to change clothes and dumped me at Ballabhgarh from where I informed my brother-in-law and somehow returned home,” the victim said in her complaint.

She was taken to hospital for medical examination where doctors confirmed rape. An FIR has been registered against all four accused Chintu, Sanju, Deepak and Kuldeep under Sections 365 (kidnap), 328 (causing hurt by mean of poison), 201 (hide evidence), 376-D (gang rape) of IPC and Sections 25-54-59 of Arms Act and Section 3 of SC/ST act at Sohna sadar police station.

“We are on job and the accused will be arrested soon,” said inspector Umesh Kumar, SHO of Sohna sadar police station.