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ALWAR: A woman was given triple talaq and subsequently gang-raped by her father-in-law and a relative at gunpoint in a village under Chopanaki police station in Alwar district . While the gruesome crime was committed on November 22 and a case was registered at Bhiwadi Mahila police station the next day, the accused persons are yet to be arrested.

According to the 25-year-old rape survivor, she got married in 2015 and gave birth to a girl child the next year. Ever since, her husband and in-laws had been torturing her for dowry. Bhiwadi DSP Hariram Kumawat said, “The complainant told us that from November 20, her in-laws held her captive in a room where they beat her for dowry. On November 22, her husband came back home in an inebriated state and pronounced triple talaq. Around 11pm, her father-in-law and a relative entered her room and raped her at gunpoint after kicking her daughter out.” Kumawat added, “The next morning, the survivor managed to escape and called her father, following which a case was registered.”

Though the survivor’s medical examination was done and statement recorded immediately, no arrests have been made even four days after the case was lodged. The case has been registered under IPC sections 498A (husband or relative of husband of a woman subjecting her to cruelty), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 376D ( gang rape ) and Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Marriage) Act, 2019.

(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)

