SIRSA: On Friday late night, Sirsa women police station booked a Fatehabad resident, his family members and relatives of
rape,
kidnapping, assault and criminal intimidation after a woman accused him of sexually abusing her on the pretext of marriage. The woman had earlier attempted suicide by consuming poison outside the Haryana chief minister’s residence in Chandigarh on July 24.
Sirsa police spokesperson Surjeet Singh said acting on the complaint of the woman’s father, a case has been registered against the youth, his father, mother, sister, former sarpanch a village in
Fatehabad district and six others. He added that investigations in the matter had been handed over to the Sirsa women police station in-charge sub-inspector (SI) Sunita. “Next action will be taken in this matter only after the statement of the woman,” he said.
The woman’s father told police that the accused had deceived his daughter on the pretext of marriage and raped her. He also alleged that he also took his daughter to meet the accused’s family members, who demanded huge dowry for marriage and when he expressed inability, they refused to get the accused married to his daughter.
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