Another incident of job allurement and subsequent rape has come to the fore here with a married woman lodging a complaint at the Bhubaneswar Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate (SDJM) Court alleging that she was being raped by BJD Keonjhar district vice-president Kusa Apat and his friend Dabar Munda recently.
The court has fixed May 7 for hearing. According to reports, the duo raped the victim, a resident of Baleswar district, in a moving car on April 16 at Jatni on the city outskirts.
Sources said that since the victim's husband, a driver by profession is a paralytic patient and unable to earn bread and butter for the family, he approached one Prasant Sahoo, also a driver friend of his, to arrange a job for her.
As Prasant was familiar to Apat and Dabar, he approached both to arrange a job for the victim. On April 15 evening, the duo along with Prasant came to the victim's house near Jhadheswari temple by a white Scorpio bearing number OR-02-BR-0111. The following day, the two accused took the victim with them in the vehicle in the pretext of giving her a job inBhubaneswar.
later, near Jatani Bazzar, Dabar allegedly raped her in the rear seat of the moving vehicle followed by Apat. Then, they threw her from the vehicle pushing Rs 500 in her hand. Following the incident, the victim phoned Prasant and narrated to him her ordeal, and on his advice she returned to Baleswar.
On April 17, the victim along with her husband and Prasant came to the Jatni police station to lodge a complaint. But the police officials advised them to approach court of law directly. Then, they moved the Mahila police station, where the officials also suggested them to go to court.
On April 27, the victim lodged a complaint at the Bhubaneswar SDJM Court for punishment of the accused under Sections 354, 376, 506, 294 and 34 of the IPC.