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Four soldiers booked over rape of woman for 4 years

The mother of a boy, 12, took help of NGO in Indore to file complaint in local police station

- BY KARUNA MADAN Correspond­ent

Four army personnel were yesterday booked for allegedly raping a speech and hearing-impaired woman over four years inside Khadki Military Hospital in Maharashtr­a’s Pune.

The 34-year-old mother of a 12-year-old boy took help of a non government­al organisati­on (NGO) in Indore and filed a complaint in the local police station. The NGO forwarded her complaint to the union defence minister and army chief.

Mother of a 12-year-old boy, the woman works as a.

According to the First Informatio­n Report (FIR) lodged by the Grade IV employee at the hospital, she was first raped by a jawan in the bathroom of a family ward during her night shift at the hospital in 2014.

The woman reported her rape to her superior, a nursing assistant and also a jawan, via a text message in 2014 itself, but he [attendant] threatened to make her message public. “Later two more jawans joined the duo and raped her repeatedly over four years. Two of the jawans also made a video clip of the abuse and blackmaile­d her. ,” inspector Rajendra Mohite of Khadki police station told Gulf News.

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