UP: Newly-wed woman alleges gangrape by husband, brothers-in law
A newly-wed woman, battling critical injuries in a hospital in Uttar Pradesh's Budaun, has alleged that she was gang-raped by her husband and two brothers-in-law and brutally tortured by other members of his family over demands for dowry, police informed today. The husband she had been married to only for three days has been arrested and cases filed against seven people.
The 20-year-old woman, admitted at Budaun's district hospital, alleged that she was sexually assaulted, her private parts burnt, and was also tortured with a stick. Detailing her trauma, she alleged that there were attempts to make her have a cold drink laced with poison. On receiving the information, the woman's father reached her house with a police team and admitted her to the hospital.
According to her complaint at the Zarifnagar Police Station, the woman from the Kotwali Sahaswan area was married to a resident of Usmanpur locality in Zarifnagar on June 22. Budaun Senior Superintendent of Police Sankalp Sharma told reporters on Friday night that further action in the case will be taken based on the investigation and medical examination of the woman.
A similar incident was reported in Maharashtra earlier this month where a man was arrested for allegedly sexually harassing his 41-year-old wife and confining her at home with three daughters for over one and a half years. The matter came to light when she managed to throw an SOS note outside her home which was picked up by a woman and police was alerted.
During the probe, the woman told the police that she had been forcibly confined inside a room in the house for over one and a half years for failing to give birth to a boy. She was also forced to have multiple abortions.
