Rohtak rape victim ends life after changing statement

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, September 25

A married woman of Katesara village in the district, who was allegedly raped on the intervening night of September 23 and 24, allegedly committed suicide at her house this morning.

The woman was found hanging in her room by her family members and neighbours, who informed the police. A police team reached there and sent the body for a post-mortem examination.

However, the case has taken a new turn with the police maintaining that the complainant, who had initially alleged gang rape, later conceded that she had gone on her own with Sunil of the same village, who raped her.

Rohtak SSP Rakesh Arya told The Tribune that in her statement recorded before the Magistrate, the woman had alleged that she was kidnapped by five youths as she stepped out of her home on Friday night. The kidnappers dragged her into their car and sped away. The woman had alleged that the youths raped her and later abandoned her in an unconscious state on Pilana road.

“However, when we got her counselled by a woman advocate, the complainant admitted that the gang rape allegation was not true. She said she had gone with Sunil on his motorcycle but he later raped her,” Arya maintained.

But before her new statement could be recorded before the Magistrate, she ended her life.

Meanwhile, the police have arrested Sunil (26) of Katesara village in the district. Sunil was named in the police complaint lodged by the woman. As per the police, Sunil is a relative of the deceased.

Sunil was produced before a local court today, which remanded him in police custody for one day.