MUMBAI: The call centre employee who was gangraped in July at Shakti Mills said in her statement before the magistrate that her husband, who was her boyfriend at the time of the incident, had promised to support and marry her just minutes after the crime.

The statement was part of a 365-page chargesheet submitted in the case before additional metropolitan magistrate Uday Padwad on Tuesday.

“I informed him (boyfriend) that it may shock my mother and she may commit suicide and I will also commit suicide. At that time, he promised to support and marry me,” the 19-year-old said in the statement.

The survivor had suffered several injuries in the attack and needed immediate medical help. She said that she had travelled all the way to a village in Chhattisgarh along with her husband before she visited a hospital.

“I was scared to disclose the incident to my mother. Therefore, we decided to go to the hometown of a friend,” the survivor said in her six-page statement. In the month that she was away, the survivor repeatedly called her mother and assured her that she was all right but was not in the right frame of mind and would tell her everything on her return.

The couple returned only a month later and revealed the incident to her mother. The revelation shocked the mother and she fainted. It was only after two days, when she had recovered, that the family went to the police station.

The chargesheet was filed against the five accused: Salim Ansari, Mohammed Qasim alias Bangali, Vijay Jadhav, his juvenile nephew, and Ashfaque Shaikh. They were present in court.

Ansari, Qasim and Jadhav are also accused in the August 22 rape of a photojournalist. The incident had also occurred at Shakti Mills.

The survivor and her husband both said that on the day of the incident they were to visit the Mahalaxmi temple and hence met up at Mahalaxmi station in the evening. But as she stubbed her toe and could not walk properly, they decided to cancel the plan and walk back to the station to board a train home. The couple then tried to take a short cut to the station through a dilapidated wall of the mill. Unable to walk further due to the injury, the survivor then sat down to drink water.

“Suddenly two persons arrived there and started beating us,” she said. One the accused then made a call to another accused and asked him to come to the spot. The survivor revealed that after the attack, the accused threatened her and told her to leave quietly. He said that if she went to the police they would kill her and that they knew where her friend lived.

Additional commissioner of police Niket Kaushik said that like the photojournalist case, this one was also strong and they were confident of getting a 100% conviction.

