LUCKNOW: A woman was arrested for luring a 19-year-old girl to her house, tying her up, holding her captive for a week while her husband raped her repeatedly, subjected to brutalities and later even chopped off her tongue so that she is unable to reveal her ordeal.
The 40-year-old accused woman first lured the girl to her house in Indiranagar under Ghazipur police station where she tied her up after which her 45-year-old husband raped her several times in seven days.
“To hide their crime, the couple chopped the survivor’s tongue to ensure she is unable to speak and tell anyone about her sufferings. Somehow, the girl fled from the clutches of the husband-wife duo and reached home. When her wounds started healing, she told her family about her ordeal through signs and a case was lodged,” said ADCP, North, Prachi Singh.
“A 19-year-old girl of another locality lost her way while searching for an address on September 21. She met the accused woman Arti who lured her and took her home,” said SHO Ghazipur Anil Singh.
The girl was tied with a rope and then allegedly raped by the woman’s husband several times, the SHO said. The girl was also thrashed badly, tortured and subjected to unnatural sexual intercourse, and her tongue was also chopped off, added Singh.
However, the girl mustered courage, managed to flee and reached home with the help of a passerby. Her family members got her treated for the injuries.
“When she got better, she wrote about her ordeal on a paper and told her parents about the sufferings and savagery she had faced through signs and actions,” the station house officer added.
The girl’s father informed the police and filed a complaint. Police lodged an FIR and arrested the accused woman Arti, while her husband Jeetu Soni is absconding.
Police registered a case against Arti and Jeetu on charges of rape, grievous hurt, wrongful confinement, kidnapping woman to compel for marriage and other relevant sections of IPC.
Police officials said they would take the woman on remand to question her as to why she subjected a poor girl to such brutalities.
A senior police officer said that both the victim and the accused belong to lower strata of the society.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
