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MUMBAI: Two sisters, married to two brothers in Virar, have alleged their husbands and in-laws forced them into sexual exploitation to repay loans.

Virar police have registered a case of cruelty and sexual harassment against 12 persons, including the husbands, in-laws and the men who sexually exploited them.

The 24-year-old complainant and her sister, aged 22, were married to the two brothers living in M B Estate, Virar (west), in 2015.

In their complaint to the police last week, the sisters alleged their husbands and in-laws forced them to have sexual relationships with men who had given loans to the family. In one case, the accused took them to his Vasai home and raped them. He told them their husbands owned him Rs 1.50 lakh and they had offered their wives to him.

In another case, the women alleged a relative sexually abused them even as family members remained mute spectators. The sisters alleged their in-laws asked them to get Rs 5 lakh each from their father or have sex with their creditors.

The complainant stated when her in-laws learnt she was pregnant, she was forced to have medicines to induce an abortion .

No arrest has been made yet.

