NEWLYWED WOMAN ACCUSES INLAWS OF GANGRAPE

KARNAL: The Yamunanagar police have booked three people for the gangrape of a 22-year-old newly married woman in the district. The accused included the elder brother of her husband, his brother-in-law and a tantrik.

As per the complaint lodged by the victim’s father, she was married to a youth in a village of Yamunanagar district on September 12, but three days later when he visited her in-laws’ house, he found that she was being tortured, so he took her back to his home in Kurukshetra district.

He also claimed that due to torture, her mental condition was not stable.

He alleged that the victim told him that on the first day of her marriage, her in-laws called a ‘tantrik’ at their house and he gave her some intoxicants. Later, her husband’s elder brother and his sister’s husband raped her. She was raped by them and the tantrik for the next three days, alleged her father.

He also accused her mother-in-law and sisterin-law of helping the accused.

He initially filed the complaint at a police station in Kurukshetra, but the FIR was later forwarded to Yamunanagar women police station. Talking to HT, Yamunanagar women police station in-charge Sheelawanti said a case was was registered against the accused under Section 376D, 328, 506 and 34 of IPC against the three men accused of rape and the two women who allegedly helped them. However, the police investigations are on and no arrests have been made so far, she added.

(IPC), but the police later added Section 4 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (PCSO) Act.