Vadodara: A 36-year-old married woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by two persons in Kawant taluka of Chhota Udepur.
Though the crime happened last month, an offence was registered at Kawant police station on Wednesday morning after a local court directed the police to take her complaint.
A mother of four kids, the woman had alleged in the court that the police had refused to register her case against the three accused Nanji Rathwa, Vikram Rathwa and Nanji’s sister Manki, but the police claimed that she had reached settlement with the accused and had refused to give her complaint.
The rape survivor has alleged that on June 2 when she was on her way to a flour mill, Nanji and Vikram stopped and grabbed her. When the woman tried to shout for help, the duo gagged her with a cloth and forcibly took her away on their bike. The woman’s complaint stated that the duo confined her at Manki’s house at Ambadungar village in Kawant taluka for nine days. Nanji repeatedly raped her during all these days, she alleged.
The woman somehow managed to escape from there and reached Kawant police station in a truck. According to her, she asked the cops to register her case, but instead the police allegedly called her family members and asked them to take her away following which she moved court.
“It has never been so that we don’t register the case especially in a serious case like rape. The woman had come to the police station, but she reached settlement with the accused. Therefore, she refused to register the case,” said B D Solanki, circle police inspector, Chhota Udepur. He added that the accused must not have paid the money according to the settlement and that could be the reason for approaching court.
It is a common practice in Chhota Udepur that after the crime is committed the two parties reach a settlement where the person who has committed the crime pays money to the victim, sources said.
