A 16-year-old girl from Assam was allegedly confined at a house in Khyala in west Delhi for eight days and raped by four men. A couple has been arrested in this connection, police said.
The rapists released her after her health deteriorated, following which she went to the house of an acquaintance.
When her health improved in few days, she approached police and filed an FIR.
She worked as a maid at a house in Rohini. On August 25, she quit the job and called Imran, who was known to her, and asked him to find her shelter for a day before she looks for another job.
She reached Raghubir Nagar on Imran’s direction to spend the night at his friend Nawal Kishore’s house.
As Nawal lived with his wife Shabeena, the victim thought it was safe to stay there, said a police officer. Imran and Nawal called two of their friends Lalu and Mithun.
At night, they forced the victim to drink and raped her.
The next morning, Kishore told his wife to keep a tab on the victim so that she does not escape.
The girl was confined for seven more days, and the four men raped her every day.
When her health deteriorated, they hired an autorickshaw and asked her to leave and threatened her as well.
Traumatised and unwell, she reached the house of her acquaintance, from where after regaining health she went to a police station on Monday.
A case of rape was filed with Khyala police station after a medical test of the victim, and Nawal and his wife Shabeena were arrested.
“A hunt is on to arrest the rest,” said the police officer.
The girl came to Delhi two years ago with a woman from her hometown in Assam, looking for a job.
The woman introduced her to a placement agency, which made her work in a house in the city.
After working for a year there, she left and started looking for a different job. The placement agency then sent her to Gujarat.
She worked there for nine months as a maid, after which she returned to Delhi and started working in a house in Rohini.