Haryana woman ‘raped on pretext of finding her job’

“I wanted a job and the accused promised me to help. He asked me to come to Mohali on May 21. I met Swaran Singh at PTL chowk where the accused told me that he would arrange my meeting with a woman who would help me in finding a job. We waited at the PTL chowk for around one hour, following which the accused told me that the woman whom we wanted to meet called him to a hotel in Phase 1,” the victim stated in her complaint.

The victim alleged that the accused took her to a room in the hotel where he raped her and threatened her with dire consequences in case she disclosed it to anyone. The victim lodged a complaint with the Phase 1 police a day after the incident.

A case under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code was registered against Swaran Singh at Phase 1 police station. The accused was arrested and sent to judicial custody.