By IANS,
Kolkata : The city police Wednesday promised swift action following allegation of inaction by an Anglo-Indian woman who said she was raped in a moving car in the heart of the metropolis earlier this month.
“We are looking into the matter with all sincerity and assure swift action. We are also looking into allegation of police misbehaviour and, if found guilty, they will be punished,” Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Damayanti Sen said.
As per police reports, the mother of two and a former call centre employee was raped on the night of Feb 5. She was also severely beaten. The police complaint was filed Feb 9 while her medical examination was conducted Tuesday.
Talking about her ordeal to a Bengali news channel, she said: “I was raped at gun point by one Sharafat Ali inside a car in which I was given a lift. The man kept hitting me mercilessly even after he had finished raping me.”
The victim said she had boarded the car because the lift was offered by a man Lavi Gidwani with whom she had a friendly chat a few minutes earlier at a club from where she was returning home late in the night.
“He looked and talked decent. But it was his friend Ali who sat beside me and I realised I was in trouble. I only remember the car going towards St Xavier’s College (Park Street) … later, I was kicked out of the car,” she said.
The victim had undergone a medical examination herself Feb 9, the day she reported the matter to the police.
“It has been a week now, nothing has happened. I have been receiving phone calls threatening me not to approach the police. I am now apprehensive about my children and my family,” said the 37-year-old, adding that she was harassed and subjected to misbehaviour by police while lodging the complaint.
Gidwani’s father, however, claimed that his son was out of the country at the time of the alleged crime.