Woman gang-raped at friend’s birthday party in Hyderabad

Naveen S Garewal
Tribune News Service
Hyderabad, October 16

A woman has complained to the police that she was invited to a birthday party where her friends drugged and subjected her to gang-rape.

The incident took place in the Kukatpally area of the city that houses many Information Technology (IT) professionals. 

She told the police that she had gone for a party at Kukatpally from her Jubilee Hills residence, where she met some friends who had come for the birthday celebrations of a common friend.  

All the youngsters were having a good time till she was offered piece of a cake. She did not realise that the cake was laced with sedative drugs, she told the police.

After she lost consciousness she was sexually abused by the people at the party. 

The accused threatened the victim not to reveal anything to anyone. The incident came to light when the victim fell sick and was taken to hospital. There she succumbed to pressure and narrated the incident to her parents. 

She along with her parents lodged a complaint with the Jubilee Hills police station.

Later the case was transferred to the Kukatpally police station as the scene of the crime fell under this area. The accused are still at large, but the police said they were trying to nab them at the earliest.