April 17,2018:
An 18-year-old girl who has alleged that she was raped by two men in 2017, has shown exemplary courage by getting her parents booked when they accepted a bribe from the accused to force her to withdraw her statement in court.Girl has stated that she was raped in August 2017, after which the accused were arrested.
One of them, out on interim bail, approached girl’s parents and offered them Rs 20 lakh if they could convince their daughter to change her statement and withdraw the case. Since they come from a very humble background, they readily agreed.
But their daughter did not agree with their decision and approached the Police, narrating her ordeal.
Girl further added that the accused who was out on bail, Sunil Shahi, approached her parents on April 8 and made this offer to them. She said her parents did not once disapprove of the offer and, instead, asked for advance money so that they could start working on convincing the girl.
Victim told the police that she was in her room when her parents met Shahi and heard the entire conversation. She said that as soon as Shahi left her house, she went up to her parents to ask for justification. Instead, they tried to convince her to give a false statement.
In her complaint she stated that, “I completely denied taking back the case, but my parents didn’t back out either. They kept trying to convince me and I stuck to my stand. The next morning they thrashed me and blackmailed me, saying that they were poor and needed that money,”.
She said that after thrashing her for a while, someone came to their house to hand them Rs 5 lakh as advance money. Her parents hid that money beneath the bed and left for court.
Source TOI
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