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AHMEDABAD: A 42-year-old woman from the Bapunagar area of the city on Tuesday filed a complaint of rape against her employer, a 40-year-old man, alleging that he had raped her ahead of Diwali in October. The woman, who has one eye with only 30% vision, still carries bruises on her body due to the attacked which occurred at her employer’s home in Bapunagar.

The victim, a mother of two children, has stated in her complaint with Bapunagar police that she is the only earning member of the family as her husband is visually impaired. To feed her family, she had decided to work as domestic help. For the past two years, she had been working for the accused, Ankur alias Joji Sharma.

“On October 20, 2019, I had gone to clean Sharma’s house ahead of Diwali,” the complainant said. “Sharma was alone at home. When I was cleaning the house at around 6pm, he held my hand, grabbed my body, disrobed me, and raped me.”

The complainant alleged that Sharma had pressed her mouth with his hand so that she could not shout for help. “After the rape, she felt suffocated and ran towards her house. She was so traumatized that she did not even speak to her husband for around two months,” said a police official.

The woman feared that her husband would leave her and take away her children if he learned that she had been raped. But as she fell into depression, her husband asked her to tell him what was bothering her.

The complainant’s husband called police and later went to Bapunagar police station where a case of rape was filed against Sharma. Cops conducted a medical examination of both the accused and victim and began an investigation.

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

