Rajasthan: Pali woman drugged, raped; loses eyesight

JAIPUR: A 22-year-old woman, who went missing from Balada town under Anandpur Kaloo police station area of Pali on June 18, was drugged and taken to Dehradun where she was repeatedly raped by a medical store owner.
After recovering the woman from Dehradun on June 26, police arrested the accused late on Monday. He had given her sedatives to an extent that she lost her vision.
It was a normal missing complaint registered at Anandpur Kaloo station on June 18 until they got a call from Dehradun police on June 26. “We were analysing the call detail records (CDR) and gathering local inputs on the missing woman,” Anandpur Kaloo SHO Sharda Bishnoi said on Tuesday.
“Since the accused identified as Badri Das (35) was continuously giving sedative pills and injections to the woman, she complained of problems in her vision on June 25. So, the accused took her to a local private hospital in Dehradun. The woman narrated her plight to the doctor who smartly intimated the local police. The local police intimated us and our team brought the woman to Pali on June 26,” Bishnoi added.
“While the woman narrated her plight to the doctor in Dehradun, the accused fled. He came to Pali for a day and again went to Dehradun. Finally, with technical surveillance and cooperation by Dehradun police, the accused was arrested,” she further added. The rape survivor in her statements stated that while she had gone to take some pills for headache to the accused's medical shop, he asked her to come inside the shop.
“The accused gave her a sedative injection. Later, she found herself in a hotel room in Dehradun where the accused raped her and was forcibly giving her sedatives. One day, when she complained of vision problems, the accused took her to a doctor where she narrated her plight,” Bishnoi added.
Police have registered a case of kidnap, rape and causing grievous hurt against the accused.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)