Was so scared that I gave up, begged for life: Rape victim

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, January 19

The 21-year-old engineering student, who was allegedly raped after being abducted at gunpoint and thrashed, drugged and videographed naked on Tuesday night, said she was so scared after being abducted that she surrendered before the accused and told him, “Do whatever you want with me but please don’t kill me”.

The victim, daughter of a retired Army officer from Jaipur, is so shocked that she doesn’t exactly remember the description of the accused. As a result, the police have not been able to prepare a sketch of the rapist so far.

The victim, a student of BTech at a private college near Rajpura, along with her parents, who flew from Jaipur after getting the information, today met the DCP here and shared her sordid tale with the police officer.

The victim told the police that initially the accused was addressing her as “beta” but later changed it to “chhori”.

However, sources at the Civil Hospital revealed that during her medical examination, the victim looked relaxed and was chewing gum.

Police sources said according to the victim’s statement, it appeared that the accused might have initially planned a robbery but later changed his mind and raped her. The sources said if the girl was to be believed, she was so scared that she completely surrendered before the accused.

The victim told the police that she received a call from her friend, with whom she had gone to the Sector 20 market, where she was abducted in a Hyundai i-20 car in which she was waiting for her friend. She rejected the call after being asked to do so by the accused and messaged her friend that she was taking her ailing relative to a hospital. Her friend messaged her asking, “Are you in trouble?” She replied, “No”. The victim said she got two chances to escape from the moving car but she was so scared that she did not attempt it.

The police are still groping the dark and have no clue of the accused even two days after the incident.

Police officials said a sketch of the accused could not be prepared as even after repeated attempts, the victim could not give them his proper description.

The description was vague. Four sketches were prepared but none was suitable to be released. The accused was wearing a cap, which was also coming in the way of preparing a sketch, the police maintained.

Meanwhile, four police teams have been put on the job to solve the case. Besides the SHO of the women police station, the CIA-1, the CIA-2 and the SHO of the Sector 20 police station have been assigned the task.

The Panchkula police have also sought assistance from Central Detective Training School, Chandigarh, to trace the accused.

The police said the accused could be in the age group of 30-35 years and might have fled towards Yamunanagar.