Mumbai: Rape and molestation of women seem to have become a part and parcel of life in India. Reports of rape and molestation are on the rise in many states in the country. The latest to shock the country is the one that took place here.
In an incident reminding of the 2012 ‘Nirbhaya’ case, a 34-year-old woman was raped and brutally assaulted inside a stationary tempo in suburban Sakinaka. She is now in hospital and her condition is stated to be serious, police said Friday. Mohan Chouhan (45), the accused, was arrested within a few hours of the incident, said an official.
The police control room received a call in the early hours of Friday that a man was thrashing a woman on Khairani Road, he said. A police team rushed to the spot to find a woman lying in a pool of blood. She was taken to the civic-run Rajawadi hospital, informed an official.
As per preliminary probe, the woman had been raped and also assaulted with an iron rod in her private parts. The officer said that the gruesome crime had been committed inside a tempo parked on the roadside. Bloodstains were found inside the vehicle.
According to the doctors at the hospital, the woman’s condition was stated to be serious, the official said. Acting on some leads, accused Chauhan was arrested under IPC sections 307 (attempt to murder) and 376 (rape) and further probe was on, he added.
In December 2012, a young woman – later referred to as `Nirbhaya’ – was brutally gang-raped and assaulted inside a moving bus in Delhi by six persons. The incident caused a wave of outrage across India. She died in a Singapore hospital after struggling for life for several days. Four of the accused were sentenced to death and hanged. One person died during the trials, while the sixth, a juvenile managed to go scot free.