That incidents of crime against women in Odisha are increasing at an alarming rate was yet again evident from a case of rape having been reported less than a week after the last one. Following the shocking Nemalo incident in which a minor girl committed suicide after her sex tape was uploaded on the internet, a woman working as a cook in a school under the Nirakarpur police station in Khordha district was allegedly raped repeatedly and an attempt was made to murder her. According to the victim, she was raped in a classroom twice and shoved into a sack with her hands and limbs tied.
She was then thrown into a well in the school campus unaware of the fact that it had dried up in summer and had little water in it. “He called me to a classroom and bolted it from inside before raping me. When I left the room, he again pulled me back. When I pleaded with him to leave me, he threatened to kill me and raped me again. He then tied my hands and limbs before putting me in a sack and throwing me in a well in a bid to kill me,” the victim has recounted her ordeal.
The youth allegedly took the victim to the classroom, saying a woman teacher had called her. “She has survived because the well had dried up. We are trying to ascertain the veracity of the allegations. If somebody has committed the crime, he would definitely be punished,” the local sarpanch said. Villagers rescued the victim in a serious condition and admitted her to the District Headquarters Hospital at Khordha. “Initially, we got a call that she had died but minutes later came to know that she was alive. Our IIC instructed us to provide her medical aid, and we left for the spot.
The villagers had already rushed her to the hospital by an ambulance before we reached the spot,” a police official said. Meanwhile, police have begun investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, the Khordha police on Friday arrested an accused for allegedly raping the cook. The accused, identified as Kapila Ransingh of the victim's area, was arrested from the Katak Sahar area.