TheMumbai police have apprehended a 40-year-old civic employee for the alleged drugging and rape of his 32-year-old wife. Furthermore, the police have arrested the victim’s two stepsons, aged 22 and 20, for their involvement in the continuous sexual assault over three months. The trio systematically sedated the woman and engaged in gang rape while recording their acts, subsequently uploading the videos to pornographic websites. An ongoing investigation has revealed that the father, in an attempt to avenge his wife’s frequent disputes with his sons, initiated the gang rape to teach her a lesson.
The victim, initially married at a young age, had separated from her first husband in 2010. In 2015, she married the accused, a 40-year-old BMC employee, as per her mother’s insistence. From her first marriage, she has a teenage daughter, while her second marriage with the accused produced two sons aged eight and nine.
The accused’s first wife had also separated from him, leaving him with two sons, now aged 22 and 20. Since the pandemic, these sons have been residing with their father and stepmother. According to police sources, the victim would engage in heated arguments and conflicts with her two stepsons over minor domestic matters. The accused husband, displeased by this, decided to take matters into his own hands and “teach her a lesson.” During the third week of June, he drugged her cold drink with sedatives and subsequently raped her, recording the act. This horrific incident was repeated multiple times. He later coerced his sons to take their turns raping her when she was in a semi-conscious state. Videos were recorded of these gruesome acts. The accused trio also administered pills to boost the victim’s sex drive before continuing to gang rape her. As the survivor began experiencing pain and health issues, she finally realized the horrifying truth – her husband and stepsons had been sexually assaulting her. However, when she attempted to resist, the accused husband issued threats to gang rape her teenage daughter and kill her two sons. He also subjected her to severe physical abuse. Traumatized and terrified, the victim kept silent.
The sexual assaults continued between June and August, during which the perpetrators uploaded recorded videos to a pornographic website, subsequently going viral. A distant relative of the victim witnessed the footage and alerted her sister, who then informed her parents. With the support of her family and relatives, the woman courageously filed a police complaint against her husband and two stepsons.
Following her detailed statement and a medical examination, the local police acted swiftly. The husband was arrested in the city, while his sons were apprehended in the Sion area. The trio had planned to escape to their hometown before their capture. The police have discovered nearly 700 pornographic clips on the accused husband’s phone, which has been seized and sent for forensic examination.
