Gurugram: Man assaulted for helping Dalit neighbour file gangrape complaint

Sanjay Yadav
Gurugram, July 13

A man was allegedly beaten up brutally for having helped a Dalit woman file a gangrape complaint.

 The complainant, Ajit Singh, is a 40-year-old neighbour of the woman’s who runs a private school, was beaten up by a mob of men, all from a certain caste, for having helped the woman file the complaint. In her complaint, the 28-year-old Dalit woman from a village near Sohna had accused four people, a cop among them, of having abducted, drugged and gangraped over nine days.

Singh had guided the woman’s family to a police station and helped them through the process. Police have yet to make any arrests in either the rape or the assault case.

Singh said in his complaint to Gurugran Police that a mob of men, all from a certain caste, came to his school in cars and bikes, dragged him out and beat him up.

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

 “They first hit my right eye and dragged me outside in street. They tore my clothes and then brutally thrashed me with sticks, iron rods. They threatened that they will kill me if I helped them anymore. I fainted and some villagers and students called the police and took me to the hospital. I was treated for two days in a hospital and filed the complaint yesterday night,” the complainant said in his complaint.

When The Tribune contacted him, Singh claimed the police were favouring his attackers instead of providing security to him and his family.

On his part, Sandeep Malik, the Assistant Commissioner of Police for Sohna, said his team was conducting raids to find the suspects.

As for the gangrape, his team was still “verifying facts”.

“The accused won’t be spared,” he said.

The Dalit woman had said in her complaint that a friend she identified as Chintu met her at a temple on the morning of June 30. A white car with two of his friends, Deepak and Sanju, soon drove by and they offered to give her a ride home. She said in her complaint that they offered her water spiked with drugs that soon put her out, and then drove toward Faridabad.

She also named a cop, Kuldeep, among her attackers. The cop is posted at a police station near Sohna.  

“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.

A medical exam soon confirmed the rape. All four suspects identified by the victim have been booked 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 the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Atrocities Act.