NEW DELHI: A 19-year-old fashion designing student who has accused her father's friend of rape has revealed, in her statement to police, that the crime took place inside the Gymkhana club at Chanakyapuri in central Delhi.

Police have issued a non-bailable warrant against the accused, Sandeep Kohli, the proprietor of Kohli Brothers, a prominent apparel store in Lucknow. The girl's statement had also been recorded before the magistrate under Section 164 of CrPC, added cops.

However, it is not merely a case of sexual assault. The five-page handwritten complaint of the survivor provides a chilling account of the trauma she was subjected to by the accused. Her detailed complaint is replete with phrases like "I was helpless" and "as if I was paralyzed". The incident has left a deep scar on her psyche and she is yet to recover from the post-trauma stress, said sources close to her family. The survivor is from Lucknow and is a student in Delhi.

The survivor said in her complaint that on February 13, she got a call from Sandeep that he was in Delhi and wanted to meet her. Sandeep picked her up from a Metro station in the evening and took her for dinner. Later, he allegedly asked her to stay back with him at his accommodation. When she refused, he insisted. The survivor claimed to have told him that her hostel rules didn't allow overnight stay without the permission of family or guardians. At Sandeep's insistence she sought permission from her hostel warden, who called up a family member in Lucknow. As the accused was known to the family, the family member who received the call in Lucknow allowed the girl to stay with him.

Sandeep then got her a taxi to bring her clothes from her hostel in Patel Nagar. An hour after she got back, Sandeep started making advances. When she resisted, he repeatedly slapped her, according to the complaint. "I was left numb ....virtually paralysed," the survivor said. Sandeep also snatched away her cellphone and allegedly slapped her again. She told police that it took her hours to accept what had happened. He then ordered her to take a shower and let her return to hostel.

Club officials said Kohli was a member of the club's Lucknow branch and used his membership to hire the cottage at the Delhi Gymkhana Club , a provision available to every member. "We have debarred him from entering the Delhi club and have written to the authorities in Lucknow for his membership to be revoked," said Vijay Chibber, a senior office-bearer of Delhi Gymkhana Club. Police have managed to get CCTV footage showing the accused and the survivor at the club and phone details of the two have corroborated the time and location given by the survivor.

The accused had rented a cottage at the club for three to four days. He introduced the girl to Gymkhana officials as his niece. Cops had registered a case under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) on February 19.

