GURUGRAM: An 18-year-old woman was allegedly abducted and
raped by three men for over seven months before she finally managed to escape from the clutches of her tormentors on Friday.
The accused allegedly shifted homes several times across three states to avoid detection. A zero FIR has been filed at women’s police station in Gurugram.
According to police, the woman, who is originally from Bhilwara in Rajasthan, lived with her family in a rented accommodation in Gurugram. She had gone to her hometown for a day to return some money borrowed by her family in January, but never came back. In Bhilwara, she was allegedly abducted by three men — identified as Darbar, Mukesh and Shiva — who took turns to rape her.
But her ordeal didn’t end there. Fearing arrest, the men took her along with them to
Gujarat and then to Delhi, shifting places every few months, to evade detection. The woman was allegedly thrashed and raped on a daily basis. Whenever she resisted, they threatened to kill her.
Two weeks ago, almost seven months later, the accused shifted house to Wazirabad in Gurugram. On Friday, all three had gone out for some work. “I somehow managed to come out of the room I was confined in. I glanced at the road and was about to call for help. To my extreme surprise and joy, I saw my mother walking on the road near the house,” she told cops. The woman then raised an alarm and was taken home by her family, who, it turned out, live in the same area.
After she narrated her ordeal to her mother, the latter took her to the women’s police station for filing a complaint. A zero FIR was registered against the three accused under sections 342 (wrongful confinement), 363 (kidnap), 376D (gang rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 34 (common intention) of the IPC the same day. A police team immediately went to the house where the woman had been kept, but there was no sign of the accused by then.
The woman’s family told cops that they had filed a missing person’s complaint in Bhilwara after they couldn’t find her, but police had failed to gather any clues. “As the woman was kidnapped from Rajasthan and gang-raped in Gujarat and other places, we have sent the zero FIR to Rajasthan Police for further investigation. The victim has been reunited with her family”, said ASI Manju Singh, the investigating officer.
