Gurugram (Haryana), July 14: The Haryana police is on the lookout for four men who
held a woman for nine days and raped her. The local police registered a case of
abduction and rape on Sunday on the basis of the victim’s complaint.
A 19-year-old woman was held hostage and gang-raped by four men for nine days
in Haryana's Sohna, the police said. The perpetrators finally left her at
Ballabhgarh bus-stand in Faridabad district of Haryana on July 8 after sexually
exploiting her for nine days. She then contacted her husband and returned home,
the victim said while narrating the details of r ordeal in the complaint.
On June 29, the survivor had gone to fetch water on the outskirts of a village
in Sohna when she met her acquaintance and one of the accused, Chintu. He asked
her to meet him at the village temple the next day, the police said adding when
the woman met Chintu at the temple the next day, two of his friends Deepak and
Sanju arrived in a car and the three took her to Faridabad in the vehicle.
The men gave her a glass of water which was laced with sedatives so she fell
unconscious. She regained her consciousness a few hours later and found herself
in a locked room littered with alcohol bottles and cigarette butts.
A man named Kuldeep from an adjoining village joined the other three
perpetrators the next day. The four men then raped her.
As per her complaint, the men injected her with sedatives and then sexually
exploited her every day for the next one week. They recorded the act and
threatened her not to inform anyone of her plight.
"When she did not return home, her family called her up, she was forced to
lie about her whereabouts as a gun was pointed at her. So she said that she was
at her friend's place and would return in few days," Sohna police
station's station house officer Umesh Kumar was quoted as saying.
The men destroyed her clothes and provided her with a fresh set before leaving
her on July 8. As per the police, she was in acute pain and had multiple
injuries on her body. She was taken to the hospital for treatment for the
injuries.
On Sunday, Sohna police registered a case against four people on the basis of
the survivor's complaint. They have been booked under sections 201 (destruction
of evidence), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison), 365 (kidnapping) and 376D
(gang-rape) of the Indian Penal Code apart from sections of the Arms Act and
section 3 of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
The police has also launched a massive hunt for the accused.