Buxar woman not gang-raped: SP

PATNA: Police investigation revealed that the 28-year-old Dalit woman was not gang-raped as had been alleged by her father in the FIR, Buxar SP Neeraj Kumar Singh told TOI on Wednesday.
The woman’s father had alleged that seven people gang-raped her after killing her five-year-old son. The investigation revealed that she had gone to her male friend’s house to meet him one last time before being sent with her husband.
Her father alleged that the incident took place on October 10 and he lodged an FIR with Murar police station the next day.Police had arrested one Meena Ram (50). Incidentally, the victim’s husband had come to take her back to his home two days before and was staying at his in-laws’ house. The woman left home with her son saying she was going to a bank.
Buxar SP said her friend, aged around 40 years, is evading arrest. “Police has arrested a man who had taken her to Koran Sarai on a bike for helping to meet her male friend. Police also arrested another person at whose residence the accused friend had taken the victim at Rajpur on October 10,” the SP said. He, however, refused to disclose the accused’s identity.
He said during investigation, it surfaced that the accused called the victim as she was set to return with her husband to her in-laws’ house on October 11. “The accused had threatened to commit suicide if she did not meet him. The victim told the police that the accused identified himself to be a single but she came to know that day that he was married and had four children,” the SP said.
He said both had a scuffle as the victim wanted to marry him. He quoted the woman that the accused later told her father had fallen ill and arranged an autorickshaw for taking her back.
“The victim told police that the accused pushed her in the pond near her residence and her son drowned and died,” he said.
He said the police have recorded before judicial magistrate the statements of autorickshaw driver, a woman of the house where the victim had her male friend stayed for the night and the one who had taken her on a bike recorded to corroborate the facts.
Singh said the medical report confirmed sexual assault, which was committed actually by the friend and not by any other person as per investigation conducted till now.