A 20 year old woman from Satara who was eight months pregnant was allegedly gang-raped by eight men in Sangli. The woman had gone to Tasgaon with her husband for a business meeting, IANS reported.
A Tasgaon police official said the hotelier and his wife were on the lookout to hire a couple for their hotel business. Mukund Mane, one of the accused had called the husband claiming that he knew someone who would be willing and told him to bring 20,000 as advance payment.
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After reaching the location, Mane and a few others beat them with pipes, stole their ornaments and money, tied up the man and locked him inside the vehicle and then gang-raped the woman.
The attackers warned them against informing the police claiming “they were locally very influential and nobody would listen to them”.
The duo reached the Tasgaon police station and registered a complaint. The attackers warned them against informing the police claiming “they were locally very influential and nobody would listen to them”.
Maharashtra State Commission for Women Chairperson Vijaya Rahatkar has written to the Sangli Superintendent of Police to personally look into the case and submit a detailed report on the case.
Seperately, a prominent Gujjar-Bakerwal activist, Talib Hussain, who had been on the forefront of demanding justice in the Kathua rape-murder case has been arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district.
Talib Hussain was arrested following a complaint lodged on Tuesday by a woman who is his relative, a police official said. In her complaint, the woman alleged that she was raped by Hussain a month-and-a half ago in Chadwa forest, he said.
Hussain, armed with a knife, intercepted the woman when she had gone to the forest for grazing cattle and also thrashed her, the complaint said.
