Mumbai, February 07 :In a shocking development 4 people including a Christian Pastor has sexually assulted a 35-year-old Hindu woman, tortured her family and also forced them to covert to Christianity. The incidnet come to light after taking action against, Maharashtra Police arrested the 4 accused identified as Butti, Prerna, Bhausaheb Dodke, and Pastor Rahul under relavent IPC section.

 

 

 

The incidnet took place in Davat Mala area of the Sinnar, Nasik in Maharashtra and the accused were torturing her and her family since November last year. They had trapped the woman and raped her several times since November 2022.

 

As per the repots, the victim filed the FIR against the accused on February 4 under IPC sections 323, 328, 344, 376D, 504, 506, 34, and 76(1) of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015.

 

As per the FIR , on November 30 last year, Butti, Prerna staoped the victim who were stepped out of the house in search of a job. They took the victim to their home where they introduced her to Bhausaheb. The three of them then asked her that did I know anything about Jesus and Christianity. They also asked her to convert to Christianity and told her that all my financial problems would be solved by accepting Christianity.

 

 

 

In her complaint the victim added that after some time, Pastor Rahul arrived on the spot, who then offered her a ‘red drink’, and showed her the picture of Jesus. “I was forcefully made to drink some red water. After that, I started losing consciousness. Later I was trapped in the room by Butti and Prerna where Bhausaheb established sexual relations with me without my knowledge and permission,” the victim stated in the complaint.

 

According to the complaint further, Butti and Prerna on December 2, then took the victim’s gold necklace (Mangalsutra) and tied a black thread around her neck to signify that she had been converted to Christianity. The woman was brutally tortured while she was trapped in a room by the accused. The victim woman also said that Pastor Rahul and Bhausaheb arrived with a 40-year-old unidentified man and the three raped her on December 2.

 

The woman tried to tell about the sexual assault to Prerna and Butti but was brutally manhandled by the accused men. They physically assaulted her and threatened to kill her if she attempted to tell anyone about the rape.

 

On December 17, the husband of the victim, who had been searching for her since her abduction, happened to reach the spot. He was accompanied by his younger son. The duo was threatened and asked to leave. On refusal, Bhausaheb caught the little boy and trapped him. He hit the kid and forced him to beg for them on the streets. “My husband was also threatened to be killed so he did not come again to the house where now I and my son were trapped,” the woman said.

 

The husband of the victim, however, sought help and managed to save his wife and his kid on December 29. The accused then asked the victim and her family to leave Sinnar immediately and keep their mouth shut. According to the FIR copy, the victim returned to Sangamner and sought the help of a social worker who guided them to file a police complaint. The complaint in the case was registered on February 4 and all the accused have been booked in the case.

 

According to the local reports, the accused have been arrested by the Police and will be kept in the custody till the 8th of February before the court proceedings begin.