Social workers rescue woman claiming she was gang raped

Nagpur: The social workers who were earlier part of food distribution network of Addl CP, crime, Nilesh Bharne under the banner of ‘Together We Can’ have now rescued a woman who was allegedly gang raped by three people after being forcibly whisked away from Jai Stambh square this week. No offence was registered even 48 hours after her rescue.
The social workers’ group, who are still feeding the last bunch of migrants going back in Shramik Special trains, had come across the woman on the footpath near Jai Stambh square with her four-year-old son wrapped in tattered clothes. It is learnt police have managed to trace her family at Nashik. They kin have revealed that the woman had left home with her son a few days back.
The social workers were stunned when she started talking about three persons, including a tea-kiosk owner in the vicinity, having raping her in some ‘jhopdi’. The social workers have also videographed the conversation with her.
The video, now with TOI, has the woman stating that the three were trying to befriend her for the last couple of days. One of them managed to cajole her to come along with him on his bike to an unidentified place where they established physical contact with her. The woman said the three men ravaged her one by one.
After the team of Anu Chhabrani, Shoeb Menon and Rekha Barhate approached the Sitabuldi police station, senior PI Raghavendra Rajput immediately helped rescue the woman and shifted her to Mayo Hospital where she has been tested for Covid-19 and found negative. She was later shifted to a government shelter home. It is learnt she was being counseled by a psychologist at the government shelter home as she has shown traits of aggressiveness.
Rajput said she would be handed over to her family. “We have already asked the family members to reach Nagpur and take her back and there was no other development,” he said.