In an unprecedented incident, a woman was allegedly raped by a person who defeated her husband in gambling at Malangbalikuti village of Balikuti gram panchayat under Baliapal police limits in Baleswar district recently.

What is shameful is that the gambling was reportedly played on a condition that the loser would offer her wife to the winner for physical relationship. Accordingly, the woman was handed over to the winner.

The matter came to the fore after the victim met the Baleswar SP seeking justice after the Baliapal police did not lodge complaint against the husband.

The rape accused is identified as Abhiram Dalai, resident of the same village.According to reports, the couple had married 16 years ago and they have a son and a daughter.

On May 22 nights, the victim was forced by her husband to go near a farmland where Dalai was waiting for her. Then the husband asked her to have physical relationship with Dalai to whom he had lost the illegal game.

The victim, who was unaware of the gambling before the incident, alleged that Dalai took her to a secluded place and raped her. After she returned home, her husband started torturing her in the same night. Their children informed their maternal uncles about the incident. Even after intervention of the victim’s family members, the ruthless husband did not stop harassing the victim.

Finally on May 24, the victim’s father sought help of the villagers to sort out the issue. A meeting was held at the village, but in vain.later on May 27, the victim lodged a written complaint with the Baliapal police. The police then asked both the victim and husband’s family members to mutually resolve the issue, without registering a case. As police didn’t register a case, the victim approached the SP. Sources said police have now registered a case.