Telangana News

A Kerala woman who was allegedly gang raped by her husband’s friends, said that she was forced to withdraw her complaint due to humiliation by the police.

Speaking to the reporters with her husband by her side, both their faces covered, she said, “Far more than rape, it was the police threats and humiliation that was unbearable.”

“Which one of them gave you the greatest pleasure?” she was allegedly asked by a police officer.

A prominent dubbing artiste and activist Bhagya Lakshmi was the first one, with whom the rape survivor shared the story. Bhagya’s Facebook post has been widely circulated and has drawn a response from Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. She called the artiste after watching her in a TV discussion recently.

“She told me it's fortunate that Jisha and Soumya died or they would have to face repeated humiliation,” Ms Bhagya Lakshmi wrote in her FB post.

According to the woman, four of her husband’s friends, claiming that her husband was in the hospital, went to her house in Thrissur. She went with them, but they allegedly drove her somewhere outside the city and raped her.

After two years, the woman confided in her husband, who urged her in August to go to the police. “I was called to the police station for four days continuously and made to sit there from morning to evening. I was asked humiliating questions,” the woman said.

The woman has named her alleged rapists; one of them, a CPM councilor, has accused the woman of lying and getting back at him for demanding money he loaned to the couple.