A 19-year-old woman who was admitted to VS Hospital after being brutally beaten up has alleged that her assaulter was a man who had raped her three months ago. The woman who is a divorcee claims she was beaten up at 5 in the morning by Saddam Badshah and her own sisters. She suffered injuries to her hands and thighs. According to her statement to the police, the accused beat her up and cut her hair before her neighbours came to her rescue. “The woman lives in a shanty in Fatehwadi in Aslali. She works as a domestic help. She has alleged that her sisters, Badshah and another man named Rasool visited her at her house and thrashed her.



They even cut off her hair. It was her scream for help that alerted the neighbours who came to her rescue,” the police said. According to DySP Pradeep Bhatt the woman used to live with her father and sisters till a few months ago. “But she claims her sisters wanted her to do things that she found objectionable. So she moved out of her house into a shanty in the area. While she was still living with her sisters, Badshah allegedly raped her at her house. We are investigating her allegations,” Bhatt told Mirror. The woman’s father works as an auto driver The police have registered complaint against the accused under IPC Sections 354 (Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 376 (Punishment for rape), 324 (Voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) and 114 (Abettor present when offence is committed). The woman is undergoing treatment for injuries she suffered to her hands and thighs.