Zirakpur-resident Lt Col booked on charge of raping wife

Tribune News Service

Ludhiana, August 17

The Dakha police have registered a case of rape against a serving Lieutenant Colonel posted at the Baddowal military base here on a complaint of his wife. He has been identified as Lt Col Nitin Sharma, a resident of Zirakpur.

The complainant told the police that she got married to Lt Col Sharma in December 2010. Soon after the marriage, her husband started torturing her saying that though he was a senior officer in the Army, her parents had not spent enough money on the wedding as per his standards.

Since her husband continued to torture her, in 2019, she shifted to her parents’ house in Khanna. In March 2021, her husband assured that he would give a mutual divorce if she came to attend a party at the Baddowal military camp on April 10.

“After attending the party, my husband took me to the guest house of the military camp where he tried to violate me. On August 14, she had come to take their son, who was living with him at Baddowal for the past few days. When I reached there, my husband asked our son to sit in the car. Then he took me to a room where he developed physical relations with me against my wishes,” the woman said.

Sub-inspector Kamaldeep Kaur said after registering a case, further proceedings had been initiated in the matter.

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