Kerala woman raped many times allegedly by friend

December 04, 2014 09:32 am | Updated April 07, 2016 02:40 am IST - NEW DELHI:

A 21-year-old woman from Kerala was raped several times for over a year allegedly by her male friend in Vasant Kunj here.

It is also alleged that the accused also filmed his act on a mobile phone which he then used to blackmail her and forcing her to keep the matter under wraps.

According to the police, the accused also restricted the woman’s movements and kept her confined inside the house. A few days ago, he left for his native place in Bhopal after locking the woman inside the house.

“A police team that reached the spot on receiving a complaint on Tuesday evening found the flat locked from outside. The girl was rescued after the locks were broken,” said a senior police officer.

The girl is learnt to have told the police that the departure of the accused provided her an opportunity to ring her mother in Kerala and reveal everything to her. “The girl’s maternal uncle and aunt live in Delhi. Her mother informed them and they in turn approached the police after which a police team was sent to rescue the girl,” said the officer.

He added that the victim was being counselled and they were waiting for more information about how the man managed to restrain her for such a long period.

The accused is pursuing his management education from a college in the Capital but the police did not disclose his institute’s name.

He first met the girl in a hospital in Kerala about two years ago. The girl was employed as a hospital staff there and the accused was admitted there for some treatment. “They befriended each other. He promised to get her a good job in Delhi upon which she quit her job with the hospital in Kerala and moved to Delhi with him. The girl has alleged that he raped her soon after her arrival in Delhi and he also filmed the act on his mobile phone to keep blackmailing her,” said the officer.

The video clipping deterred the girl all this while against reporting the matter to police or anyone else. “When she could take it no longer and even began confining her, she informed her mother,” said the officer.

The police have sent a team to Bhopal to arrest the accused.

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