INDORE: An Indore-based builder and four of his friends have been arrested for allegedly gang-raping his wife for over two years, torturing her and forcing her into unnatural sex, Kshipra police said on Sunday.
“Preliminary investigation shows that the husband is the prime accused. He had threatened to kill her to stop her from filing a complaint,” Suman Tiwari, the investigating officer, told TOI.
The survivor is the third wife of the prime accused, who has two children from his previous marriages, said Tiwari. He is 45 and she is 32, and they met on a matrimonial website in 2019.
The woman has told police that she hails from another state and came to Indore after marrying the accused on October 24, 2019.
They lived in a farmhouse on the outskirts of Indore, where, she says, her husband began forcing her into unnatural sex and then with another man. She told police that her husband burnt her with cigarettes and repeatedly assaulted her.
She alleges that her husband confined her in a room for a month where he and the other man gang-raped her multiple times.
Then, her husband called three of his friends to the farmhouse and all of them gang-raped her for months, took videos of the sexual torture and used the footage to force her to stay silent, she says in her complaint.
The five threatened to post the gang rape videos on social media if she went to police, she says.
Around three months ago, she could get out of the house and went back to her parents in her home state.
She claims her husband continued to issue death threats to keep her quiet and even sent one of his friends over to keep a watch on her.
According to the complaint, he threatened to kill her parents as well.
After mustering courage to fight back, she returned to Indore on Saturday and filed a complaint with Kshipra police.
Police have arrested all five suspects, including one from Bemetara in Chhattisgarh.
Tiwari said they are investigating all angles. A case under IPC sections 376, 377, and 323 and Arms Act has been registered against the five suspects.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
