Naliya gang rape victim faces FIR for ‘cheating’

AHMEDABAD: A 24-year-old woman, who was allegedly gang raped by nine men, including BJP members, in Naliya town of Gujarat’s Kutch, has been accused of criminal breach of trust and cheating by her former husband.

The first class judicial magistrate SS Brahmbhatt asked Gujarat police earlier this week to file an FIR against the woman under sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 419 (cheating by personation) and 504 (insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) based on the complaint.

A resident of Kutch, her ex-husband had moved court and alleged that his former wife cheated him by decamping with jewellery and cash to the tune of ₹25,000 a day after they got married on January 31, 2016. They got divorced the next month and she remarried her first husband.

“An FIR will be registered against the rape victim once we receive the written copy of the court order,” Kutch (West) superintendent of police Makrand Chauhan told HT.

The case took a political turn after Congress hit the streets demanding a fair probe into the incident.

The opposition has tried to corner the BJP over the case and also frequently disrupted assembly proceedings till the announcement of a judicial probe.