Woman Raped, Illegally Confined For 4 Months In Gujarat; 10 Booked
Police said the woman came to know that the hotel where she was kept in Dubai was allegedly a hotbed of prostitution
Mumbai: A man and his nine family members were booked after a woman was allegedly illegally confined for four months and raped in Gujarat’s Khed, police said on Friday. A local court in Kheda on Friday remanded in judicial custody eight of the ten accused booked in connection with the case.
Police said the accused man had promised to marry her and take her to Poland, but he duped her of Rs 5 lakh, police said, adding that his family members were also forcing him to convert.
The woman has alleged in her complaint lodged with the concerned police station that she had come in contact with the accused person on social media a few years back. The complaint states that the two entered into a relationship and the woman, who is a trained nurse, expressed her desire to immigrate to another country.
“The accused had promised the woman that they would move to Poland, but since he did not have money to process their stay, he asked the woman to take money from her parents… She took Rs 5 lakh from her parents and told them that she was migrating to Poland for work. However, since the accused was unable to get a visa, he sent her alone to Dubai and promised to join her in a few days,” KG Patel, Deputy Superintendent of Police, SC/ST Cell said, Kheda district told The Indian Express.
Police said the woman came to know that the hotel where she was kept in Dubai was allegedly a hotbed of prostitution.
“He started pressuring the accused to arrange his ticket to return to India… He called her back to Nadiad and locked the woman in a rented apartment for about four months… The woman has said that the accused forced himself with her in the flat on several occasions… She said that on one occasion the father and brother of the accused tried to molest her,” Patel said.
The FIR was registered against the accused, his parents, brother, sister as well as five other members of his extended family.
“We have arrested eight people and two, including the main accused and his aunt, are yet to be arrested,” Patel said.
According to police, the woman kept her family in the dark about the incidents and kept explaining to them that she was working as a nurse in Poland.
The police are deliberating if the accused can be booked under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion Act, 2003.
Patel said, “The woman claimed that since she was asking the accused to marry him, his mother and other family members repeatedly forced her to embrace their faith… However, they have not married yet.”
(With Indian Express Inputs)
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