Nagpur: On Friday, rape of a woman and two molestation cases were reported at different police stations in the city.
In the first incident, one Rahul Thakur raped a 20-year-old on August 20 at his friend’s house in Chandmari area on the pretext of giving her a job.
In the second, a 14-year-old girl was molested by her maternal cousin while she was sleeping at her home and in third incident, another 14-year-old girl was stalked, molested and thrashed by her neighbour on August 19 in Sanjay Nagar near Pandhrabodi area.
The accused in first case, Rahul Thakur, has been absconding since the incident came to light. Police said that Thakur, who works at a mobile tower office, was looking for an address on August 10 in the area where the survivor lives.
The address accused was looking for turned out to be that of the survivor.
Thereafter, Thakur struck a conversation with the survivor’s mother and offered her daughter a job at his office. Thakur also gave his visiting card to her mother and asked her to contact him.
On August 12, the survivor called Thakur and went to his office for work. After some time, the accused told her that they have to visit a customer for collecting money. However, the accused took the survivor to his friend’s house and raped her. Thakur also threatened her of dire consequences if she told anyone about the incident.
The survivor shared her ordeal with her mother who called Thakur to offer a marriage proposal, but he refused. Since then, the survivor and her mother were scared to approach police fearing social stigma. On Friday, they finally approached the Nandanwan police and registered a case of rape.
In the second incident, the accused, Yogesh, visited the survivor’s house, had dinner and was supposed spend the night there.
As soon as the accused molested the girl, she raised an alarm and her family members immediately threw Yogesh out of the house.
