How a girl was made a victim of blackmail and gangrape on the pretext of marriage in Kolhapur, Maharashtra? How did the accused keep the girl in their custody and tortured her for 10 months? How and why did the victim finally decide to reach out to the police?
Mumbai: Police have arrested four accused who cheated a girl in the name of love and gang-raped her. All four of them were sexually abusing the girl one by one for the last 10 months. The accused kept the girl hostage for 10 months and kept making her a victim of their lust. This heart-wrenching incident happened in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. The girl showed courage and complained to the police, only then this matter came to light.
How did the girl get trapped in the web of deception?
About a year ago, the girl befriended a boy from Kolhapur. This friendship soon turned into love. The boy had also promised to marry the girl. About 10 months ago, he took the girl to an isolated place on the pretext of talking about marriage. There he forcibly had physical relations with the girl despite her refusal.
Showed hell for 10 months
During this time, the accused boy recorded this disgusting act in his mobile phone. He also took some photographs with the girl. On the basis of these pictures and videos, he started blackmailing the girl. After this incident, he forced the girl to live a life of hell for 10 months.
When the girl requested to delete the video and pictures, he threatened to kill the girl’s family. Not only this, he also included his three more friends in this brutality. It is alleged that for the last 10 months, the four accused kept taking the girl to lodges, flats and other places in and around Kolhapur, threatening her, giving her drugs and raping her one by one.
condition for marriage
Recently, when the girl’s health deteriorated, she requested the accused to spare her. The main accused put a condition on this. He said that if he registered her marriage without telling anyone, he would delete the video and pictures.
Fed up with the brutality of the four, the girl finally gathered courage and reached a local police station in Kolhapur. There she recorded her statement in front of the women officers. The officers were also stunned after hearing the ordeal of the victim. The police have registered a case under various sections like gangrape, blackmailing, forcible confinement and threatening to kill and have arrested all four accused. The police have also seized the mobile phones of the accused and are investigating the case.