AGRA: A 30-year-old Dalit woman underwent surgery to amputate her left leg two months after it was crushed under a motorcycle by three men who allegedly gang-raped her in Mathura’s Kosi Kalan. The woman's family filed a police complaint on Tuesday after weeks of rushing her from one hospital to another.
Police have registered an FIR against the three accused, one of whom is "unidentified", under IPC sections 376 D (gang-rape), 328 (causing hurt), and 326 (voluntarily causing grievous hurt), along with section 3 (2) (5) (punishment for atrocities) of the SC/ST Act.
SHO of Kosi Kalan police station, Anuj Kumar, told TOI that two of the accused were arrested and remanded to judicial custody, while the third was still at large. In her complaint, the survivor said that she was heading to Kosi Kalan from her village on May 24 to withdraw money from her bank when one of the accused, who hailed from her village, met her on the way. He offered to give her a lift and along the way called up two of his friends. The three of them then forced her to swallow a drink laced with intoxicants before raping her one by one.
The woman said that the men then assaulted her and crushed her legs with a motorcycle. She was left in an unconscious state near a railway track in Kosi Kalan where a railway police team spotted her and informed her family.
She was rushed to a government hospital in Kosi Kalan from where she was referred to the Mathura district hospital. Doctors there referred her to a higher hospital in Agra. Since her condition was not improving, family members took her to a hospital in Haryana for treatment, where her left leg was amputated.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
