and misbehaving with her.
The victim, a dual degree student pursuing an MSc and a PhD in physics, has chosen not to inform her Andhra Pradesh-based family about the incident. "She does not want to put her mother, a single parent, through stress," said U A Yajnik, dean of students' affairs at IIT-B. He added that the victim told IIT authorities she was confident that she had not been sexually assaulted.
S V Rajan, who works in the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering office, has been booked under Indian Penal Code's sections 328 for causing hurt by means of poison, 342 for wrongful confinement, 354 for outraging modesty, and 366 for kidnapping, abducting or inducing a woman to compel. He was produced before Andheri court on Monday and remanded in police custody till August 22. IIT-B has suspended him till further inquiry.
The police managed to convince the victim to lodge an FIR during a counselling session at Rajawadi Hospital where she was admitted, said senior inspector Bajirao Bhosale.
The victim and the accused used to play badminton together. In her complaint, the victim said, "Rajan used to meet me at the badminton court and invite me to his residence for coffee. To avoid him, I didn't visit the court between August 7 and 9. I even informed my colleagues about this. When Rajan did not see me for three days, he approached me on August 10 in the lab where I was engaged in research work."
On Saturday, Rajan met the victim at the badminton court around 9.15am. She said he forced her to accompany him to his residence for coffee and to meet his wife. When the victim saw that his wife was missing, Rajan said she had gone to a temple and would return shortly. "He offered her coffee and snack; she soon began to feel drowsy. The accused gave her a tablet but her condition worsened," a police officer said.
She managed to call up her fiance in Hyderabad and give him sketchy information about her condition, the officer said. He, in turn, got in touch with her colleagues. "Around 11.15am, they located Rajan, who denied knowing her whereabouts. Later security guards and the victim's colleagues forced him to take them to his house. The victim was found in an unconscious state on his bed. She was rushed to the IIT hospital, wherefrom she was shifted to a government hospital as it turned out to be a criminal matter."
The victim kept slipping in and out of consciousness till Sunday evening. "Somehow she agreed to lodge an FIR, but said she would end her life if forced to do a physical test. We are waiting for the chemical analysis of the drugs used. We are also getting details on whether the accused had committed a similar offence in the past," the officer said.
Yajnik said by Monday evening, the victim was transferred back to the campus hospital. "She was in a good mood in the evening."
Rajawadi Hospital medical superintendent Dr S S Poyekar said the patient was put on intravenous fluids to flush out the sedatives. A doctor said, "She did not have any external injuries for sure."
(With inputs by Hemali Chhapia and Yogita Rao)
0 Comment:
Speak up your mind
Tell us what you're thinking... !