Gangraped IAS aspirant still fighting for justice

SHE WAS ALLEGEDLY GANGRAPED IN A MOVING CAR IN DECEMBER LAST YEAR AND BLACKMAILED FOR AT LEAST THREE MONTHS

GURGAON: Upset and frustrated over alleged inaction even after lodging a complaint with the police three months ago, Shweta (name changed) tried to take her life on June 20. She was allegedly gangraped in a moving car in December last year and blackmailed for at least three months during which the accused extorted close to ₹5 lakh from her.

“I tried to give her strength and told her that she could always count on us for support. Her daughter is only five-yearsold,” her father told HT.

An IAS aspirant who works for a government bank in Delhi and stays with her family in Gurgaon’s Sector 31, Shweta finally filed a complaint on March 29 at the women’s police station. She said that she had since been fighting a determined battle along with her father for justice.

In her complaint, Shweta had alleged that she was preparing for IAS exams when Rohit (name changed), the accused, met her at Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar where she works. He introduced himself as the son of an IAS officer from Uttar Pradesh and had a car with a blue beacon, she said.

According to the complaint filed by the victim, they started interacting and one day, in December, she was gang-raped by him and his friends in a moving car. He filmed the act and extorted over ₹5 lakh from her, the complaint stated.

Her father said he had filed three FIRs since March and written several letters to the chief minister, director general of police and the commissioner of police, seeking action against the culprits.

He said he even wrote to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Friday and the Haryana Women Commission the day after urging their intervention in the case. “I am also an RTI activist and somebody who’s quite aware of the law. If I run into so many obstacles in my quest for justice for my daughter, imagine what normal residents go through.” While the first FIR was filed in March this year against Rohit and seven others, including three women, at the women’s police station, the second was filed at Sector 40 police station