In a horrific incident, a widow was allegedly raped and gang-raped by seven individuals for over eight years earlier than she gathered braveness to lodge a criticism, the police mentioned right here. The Beed Police have launched a probe towards the seven accused individuals after the sufferer named those that indulged even in unnatural acts repeatedly, both alone or in a bunch, at varied places within the district for greater than eight years. Arrests are anticipated shortly, mentioned an investigating officer. According to the police, it was in 2014 when the widow, then 24, went to her dwelling late within the night in an auto-rickshaw, however later the driving force referred to as to tell that she had forgotten her purse in his three-wheeler.
He referred to as her to his dwelling, overpowered and raped her, and even made a video clip of the act. But she stored quiet in view of the social stigma it might entice as she was a widow. Later, threatening to show her MMS on social media, the auto-rickshaw driver – recognized as Sandeep Pingle – repeatedly summoned her to numerous places and raped her, ignoring her pleas and protests to cease her exploitation. Pingle allegedly handed on the video clip to his family members, Gorakh Ingole and his brother Balaji Ingole, in 2015 and the duo additionally began to threaten, blackmail and rape the widow repeatedly.
The IO mentioned that round 2020, Gorakh Ingole took her on his bike to an remoted location within the hills of Hivra the place one other 4 of his associates took turns to gang-rape her for greater than six hours, together with indulging in unnatural sexual acts. After that assault, the girl was bleeding profusely from her non-public components, however they ignored her cries and continued their act. At one level in 2021, the widow had turn into pregnant and when she informed her perpetrators, Gorakh Ingole forcibly took her to a clinic for an abortion. Weary of the continued common tortures, the widow left Beed city and began to work as a restaurant supervisor in Majalgaon, however the oppressors pursued her even there and blatantly continued their demonic behaviour.
Finally, she mustered braveness and lodged a criticism with Majalgaon Police on Thursday about her surprising travails, the psychological, bodily and sexual assaults, accidents and agony she silently endured for thus a few years. “Since this is a very serious crime, we immediately lodged a Zero FIR and transferred it to the Beed City Police for conducting further investigations,” an official from the Majalgaon police station informed IANS. The accused have been booked below varied sections of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to rape, conspiracy, gang-rape, abduction, blackmail and different crimes, he mentioned.
