Puttur, Feb 16: A 24-year-old Dalit woman hailing from Sarve village in Puttur of Dakshina Kannada district has lodged a complaint against her boyfriend and his two friends for gang-raping her.
The woman, who is now pregnant, in her complaint claimed that her boyfriend not only repeatedly sexually exploited her but also encouraged his two friends to rape her.
Though the gang rape took place nearly four months ago, the victim did not approach police until her boyfriend dumped her after realising that she has become a pregnant. The jurisdictional Puttur Rural police registered a case on Wednesday, February 14, based on the woman’s complaint.
The woman said that she was in a relationship with a person named Dinesh Gowda, who is a farmer by profession. She said that Gowda had assured to marry her and then began taking sexual favours from her. They had developed sexual contact for at least a year-and-a-half.
In November 2017, Gowda also fetched his two friends, Santhosh and Sathish, to his bedroom and allowed them to rape her. Even after this incident, Gowda continued taking advantage of her, she said.
However, when he learnt that she was pregnant, Gowda decided to break ties with her turned down her wedding demand. After several attempts to convince him went in vain, the woman on Wednesday approached the police.
Bengaluru, Feb 14: After the swearing-in of ten former JDS and Congress MLAs, political boundaries seem to have become more fluid, with little clarity on who is on whose side. When Honnali BJP MLA Renukacharya visited senior Congressman DK Shivakumar at the latter’s residence, many eyebrows were raised over the reason behind the meeting. There was speculation over why Renukacharya would be meeting a man who is, in all likelihood, slated to be the next KPCC president.
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