18yearold victim says friend’s father had ‘planned rape’

GURUGRAM: The 18-year-old girl, allegedly raped by a friend’s father at his apartment in The Belaire in Gurugram, has told the police that the man seemed to have planned the rape because he compelled her to consume hard liquor with dinner at Cyber Hub.

The victim, in her complaint to the police, said that she had never consumed alcohol before, but the suspect ordered alcoholic drinks for her and his daughter and compelled both to try them.“I realised that uncle had planned the whole thing, which is why he made us consume hard drinks,” she told the police.

“My mother gave me permission to go out for dinner because my friend’s father was coming with us. She thought it would be safe,” the victim was quoted as saying in the FIR.

The friend’s father, a businessman, allegedly raped her in the early hours of Friday after pulling her into his room when she was sleeping next to her friend in the latter’s bedroom.

“I could not understand as I panicked. He locked the room, gagged me with his hand and forced himself on me. He then threatened to kill me if I told anyone,” the victim said in her statement to the police.

The 45-year-old man was arrested on Friday. A court sent him to Bhondsi jail on Saturday.

Poonam Hooda, station house officer at the women’s police station, said that his wife had also filed a complaint for cruelty against him last month. HTC