Bengaluru: A eight-months pregnant daughter of a retired IAS officer, who had held the highest responsibility in the state, was brutally raped by her brother-in-law at her husband’s house in Mysuru, and has now filed a rape case at the Indiranagar police station.
Now the police have transferred the case to Mysuru commissionerate as the incident did not happen within the Bengaluru jurisdiction. Police commissioner MN Reddy, while answering media queries, said that the police received the complaint on Tuesday and now the case has been transferred to Mysuru. The complainant had sought security for her husband and other family members, he said. At the same time, the Mysuru police said that they are yet to receive the case.
The victim has alleged that her husband’s elder brother Dr. Harsha Basappa had raped her last November, when she was eight months pregnant. He had allegedly threatened her of dire consequences if she revealed the matter. Besides, she has also accused her in-laws of harassing her bring a dowry of Rs. 45 crore. Her father-in-law, Dr. C B Murthy, runs the reputed Basappa Memorial Hospital (B M Hospital) in Mysuru, police said.
In her complaint, she has stated that her wedding was a love-cum arranged and an inter-religion marriage. “My in-laws including my brother-in-law and sister-in-law were harassing me to bring a dowry of Rs. 15 crore. They started harassing me just a few days after the wedding in 2011. As the family business was not doing well, they started harassing me to sell my father’s property in Bengaluru and give Rs. 45 crore. As I refused, they threw me out of the house in the middle of the night on several occasions,” she stated.
As per the complainant, Harsha was allegedly making sexual advances at her very often. “On November 11 last year, I was resting in my room as I was eight months pregnant. Meanwhile, Harsha barged inside my room and raped me. While he was trying to strangulate me, my husband rushed to my help hearing my screams. Harsha had threatened us of dire consequences if I revealed the matter to anyone. Even my in-laws stopped my husband from filing a complaint by saying that both the families’ reputation would be spoiled if the matter is brought before the police.
The Indiranagar police have registered case under IPC sections 341 (wrongful restraint), 307 (attempt to murder), 376 (rape), 498(A) (dowry harassment) and other sections against her in-laws before transferring the case to Mysuru police.
