Rajkot: A 24-year-old woman from Rajkot was allegedly branded and tortured by her aunt and cousin when she went to live at their place following the death of her father due to Covid-19 last year.
A complaint was lodged with Thorala police station on Monday after the woman was rescued by a team of Abhayam.
The Abhayam team got a call from the victim’s neighbour who informed that she was beaten by her aunt and they heard the screams of the woman. The team rescued the girl Shivangi Garas and took her to hospital and later to Thorala police station.
BM Katariya, police inspector, Thorala, said, “She was scared when she was brought here, but we counselled the woman after which she opened up and agreed to lodge a complaint.”
The complaint names her aunt Ansuya and cousin Shivani. She had started living at her uncle’s house on Sant Kabir Road after the death of her father. Her parents got divorced and she is not in contact with her mother. She alleged in the complaint that she was tortured for the last six months.
She was allegedly branded, beaten with an iron pipe and forced to do all the household work. She was not even given enough food, the complaint stated. According to police, the neighbours, pitying her condition, had given food to the woman clandestinely. If her aunt got to know that the neighbours had given her food, she would go and fight with them, said police. The aunt and cousin were booked her relevant sections of IPC.
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