New Delhi, Feb. 27: A married woman from Sikkim, trapped by traffickers into a call girl ring in Delhi, was allegedly raped last night by an AIIMS doctor who was apparently her first "client".
Police said Mohammed Mehraj, 28, posted in the neurology department of the premier government hospital, was arrested tonight on rape charges. Three other men and a woman have been arrested on the charges of trafficking and prostitution.
Officers said the 25-year-old complainant was married to a soldier. She had apparently been lured to Delhi a week ago by a woman acquaintance named Suman with the promise of a job at a beauty parlour.
"But the woman, her husband and two male friends forced her into a prostitution racket last night," a senior officer said.
Activists from the Northeast expressed outrage at the continuing sexual assaults on women from the region although, on the face of it, the latest attack does not appear a racial crime.
The police said they received a call around 5am today from a taxi driver from the Gautamnagar area in south Delhi. The caller said a woman, who appeared a rape victim, was squatting on a roadside and crying.
When a police van arrived, the woman said a man had raped her at his home in the same locality.
Officers quoted her as saying that Suman and three accomplices had left her at the rapist's home last night after taking Rs 9,000 from him.
"On the basis of the complaint, we conducted raids in Sagarpur (west Delhi) and Gautamnagar and nabbed four people," an officer said.
Suman, 37, and her husband Deepak alias Sagar, 40, were picked up from Sagarpur and Dharamveer, 32, and Kamal, 31, from Gautamnagar.
"Mehraj was detained in the afternoon and questioned for five hours before being arrested tonight," the officer said.
"He told us he had contacted Dharamveer, a pimp who supplies girls, last evening. Mehraj said that after having sex, he had let the woman go."
Police sources said Mehraj was from Hyderabad and had been staying in a rented flat in Gautamnagar for the past one year.
"The victim belongs to a very ordinary family in Sikkim. She told us she knew Suman and was duped into coming to Delhi," the officer said.
The complainant was put up at a house in Sagarpur the day she arrived and was later shifted to Munirka in south Delhi. She is being treated in hospital and her family has been contacted in Sikkim.
The police said the four alleged traffickers had been running the call girl racket for the past one year.
A member of the Northeast helpline group was outraged that "girls from the Northeast continue to be targeted" in Delhi.
"They feel very vulnerable. All the tall claims of the government and Delhi police have fallen flat," he said.
In the afternoon, before the arrests had been announced, women's activist Binalakshmi Nepram had threatened street protests "if there's any attempt to hush the matter up".
She condemned the rise in sex crimes across the country. "We've done a lot of sensitisation programmes but rapes haven't stopped, whether of northeastern women or women from other parts of the country," Nepram said.
This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service - if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read the FAQ at http://ift.tt/jcXqJW.
from Top Stories - Google News http://ift.tt/18vJiBu
via IFTTT
0 comments:
Post a Comment