19-year old woman accuses maternal uncle of raping, impregnating her

Bathinda, May 29

A 19-year-old woman has accused her maternal uncle of repeatedly raping her in Bathinda in November last year, police sources said on Saturday.

The victim was unaware that the rape had lead to pregnancy, police sources said.

Police sources quoted a complaint by the woman’s family as saying that when the suspect had come to her house in Bathinda last year during Diwali, her mother had asked him to stay over for a few days so she could take her son who was ill to a hospital.

The rapes, the complaint said, happened during the times when her mother was absent. The complainant said that the suspect raped over repeatedly over the next few days and even shot a video of her, which he threatened to make viral if she admitted the incident to anyone, sources said.

The victim fainted a few days ago while she was on her way to the market with her mother, police sources said. When she was taken to the hospital, they found out that she was seven months pregnant. She then told her family of the alleged rapes, police sources said, bringing the family to file a police complaint o Saturday.

Baljit Singh, an assistant sub-inspector at Model Town Police Station—where the woman had filed the complaint—said police had taken down the victim’s statement and were now looking to arrest the suspect.