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HISAR: Going through the worst at a tender age, a woman, now 21, has come out against her parents and relatives, alleging that she had been raped by three uncles for years and that too with the consent of her parents. She mustered courage to report the matter to the police when she saw the same happening with her minor sister.

Following the complaint, Hisar police have registered a case against seven persons, including parents and three uncles of the woman, for the heinous crime.

Police said investigation of the case had been handed over to the woman assistant sub-inspector Kamala Devi, but no arrests had been made so far.

The survivor claimed that she was subjected to sexual abuse and rapes when she was a minor. Her three uncles first made her mother get into physical relationship with them and later started abusing her, she alleged.

She alleged that when she used to complain to her parents about it, they used to thrash her. Her ordeal ended when she got married in February 2017 and went to live with her husband. But according to the survivor, it was the turn of her younger sister who was also raped by one of the accused. Later, the man had taken the minor to a hotel where she was violated by others, the survivor claimed.

The survivor said her younger refuse to file a police complaint as she was scared.

Police have booked the accused under Sections 354 (outraging the modesty), 376 (rape), 376 (2)(F) (being a relative, guardian or teacher of, or a person in a position of trust or authority towards the woman, commits rape on such woman), 376 (2)(F) (commits rape repeatedly on the same woman), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation), 120B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and Sections 4 (penetrative sexual assault), 6 (aggravated penetrative sexual assault) and 8 (sexual assault) of POCSO Act.

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

