Gurgaon: In a shocking narrative, a 20-year-old woman from Nepal said she and her 44-year-old mother were sexually abused every day for the last four months by a diplomat. The diplomat at the Saudi Arabia embassy in New Delhi has been booked for rape while his wife and daughter have been booked for torturing domestic helps in this Millennium City, the Haryana Police said.
The mother and daughter were “rescued” on Monday evening from an apartment on the fifth floor of Ambience Island Caitriona complex here. The victims were “rescued” after the intervention of the Nepalese embassy and with the help of an NGO Maiti Nepal India, police said.
The duo said that on some days, they would be given no food at all. However, they were allowed to take bath, just before they had to meet the diplomat’s ‘guests’, who would rape and sodomise them, reported the daily.
“We were made to do all the household chores, from morning till late in the night, and then subjected to sexual assault at the end of the day. We were not given food. Sometimes we only survived on biscuits, bread and watery tea. We were never allowed to step out of the house,” said the women. They also claimed that the diplomat took them to other places, including Nainital and Agra, where they were subjected to further sexual assault by other ‘guests’.
Meanwhile, the 44-year-old told news agency that they were told by an agent that this man from Saudi Arabia is very nice and we would be provided with good facilities. We were fine in Saudi Arabia and were given good facilities, and then we were brought back to Delhi where we were harassed,” said the victim.
However, later “around five-six people used to come and lock us in a room, harass us; we were threatened by a knife when we objected”, added the victim. Balkrishan Pandey of NGO Maiti India told news agency that another woman who was kept at the diplomat’s apartment as a domestic help managed to escape.
The police officer said a case against the diplomat and “unknown people” has been registered at the DLF-2 police station under sections of gang-rape (376 D), rape (376), unnatural sex (377) and some other sections of Indian Penal Code including 342, 323 and 120B.
The Saudi embassy has, however, dismissed the charges as “completely false” and “contrary to facts in our possession”, and added they would wait for the Indian government to clarify the matter as per diplomatic norms.
Bureau Report
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