A Mumbai-based model, who was invited to Hyderabad to ‘perform’ for a ‘night dance show’ for a fee of Rs 1 lakh was allegedly gang raped in Hyderabad on the night of December 31.
A case has been registered in the Mumbai’s Versova police station based on the complaint lodge by the victim. The 26 year-old model in her statement claimed that she was drugged and raped by four men who has booked her for the show on December31.
A travel ticket was sent to her and was received by the four men in Hyderabad the same afternoon. All of them to a nearby hotel and a soft drink was offered to her by them and asked her to be ready for a 10 pm show.
The case got mysterious as she claimed to have bundled the injured victim onto a Mumbai-bound tourist bus. She only woke up in Mumbai, two days later, wearing “clothes inside out and with a ticket in a coat pocket that didn’t belong to her”. She regained full consciousness only after reaching Borivali in Mumbai, which was the bus’ final stop, on January 2.
The police believes the drink may have been laced with sedatives.
She further added that the four men also used her ATM card to withdraw nearly Rs 50,000 from her bank account and then packed her off to Mumbai on a bus.
After recording her statement on Tuesday night, Versova police sent her to Cooper Hospital in the city for a medical examination on Wednesday afternoon.
After the process of registering the FIR,the case is now being officially transferred to city police for further investigation the alleged crime took place,”said senior police inspector of Versova police station, Harishchandra Parmale.
As the ticket was booked under the name of “ Ismail Shaikh” from Hyderabad, other reports indicate that he might be the person of interest in the case.
The police is also scrutinizing the locations from which the money was withdrawn.
Postponement of case
The model also claimed that officials took hours to register a complaint in spite of approaching Mumbai police the very same day. Although she managed to record her statement on Tuesday night, with the help of a local NGO, Jan Shakti.
“We suspect a video of the crime is being circulated. In Hyderabad, there is huge racket of blue films and we suspect its involvement,” said Jay Singh, from the NGO.