Mumbai crime: Father, 'husband' held for raping teen for a year

ldquoEvery time he tried to rape me hersquod tie a scarf around my mouth to ensure that my screams were not heard in the neighbourhood After every attempt he threatened me into keeping mum I was very scaredrdquo A 16 year old girl finally marshalled the courage to disclose to the police these ghastly acts of her father who used her to vent his lust for an entire year until she ran away from home in October just to escape his clutchesAlso read Monster dad Man makes suicide threat in order to rape daughterShe was 15 when she fled home But the world outside was no safer for her than the home she had come to abhorShe fell in the hands of another predator an auto driver in Andheri who trapped her in a makebelieve marriage and raped her countless times over the six months they would spend togetherAlso read 14yearold raped by stepfather accused later takes girl to hospital for abortionThe teenager who is now three months pregnant was rescued on May 16 after she called up her mother who lodged a complaint with the Nehru Nagar police on Monday Cops have arrested the two menThe survivor said in her statement ldquo Since the time I turned 15 my father has been molesting me At nights he slept beside me and pulled me towards him while I was fast asleep Initially I was naiumlve enough to believe that it was just fatherly love but when he began touching my private parts I was alarmed One day I told my mother about his behaviour and she confronted him In front of her he promised not to repeat his acts but his harassment continuedrdquo At times the teenager said her father would enter the bathroom while she was inside and flash his private parts ldquo He attempted to rape me on three occasionsrdquo and because of his threats ldquo I never said a word about the horrifying act to my motherrdquo she statedAlso read Man held for raping 17yrold daughter for 6 yearsldquo In the month of October he finally succeeded in raping me It was then that I thought that enough is enough and left my house foreverrdquo she saidOn October 25 the battered teenager spent the day at Kurla West railway stationSubinspector Sachin Wagh of Nehru Nagar police station said ldquo The night after leaving her residence she slept in an auto rickshaw parked outside the Kurla stationThe day after when she was wandering in the area by herself a 30 year old rickshaw driver Abbas name changed saw her and asked her what she was up tordquo He understood that she had no one to fend for her and decided to exploit the situationHe took her to his house in Andheri where he stayed with his mother and three children After offering her food to gain her trust he started forcing himself on herWhen she resisted he soothed her by telling her he would marry her and then had sex with herA lsquo weddingrsquo did take place but it was nothing more than a phoney ceremony There is no official record of the marriage and to trick her Abbas merely arranged for a cursory ritualAlso read 35yearold drugs wife rapes teenage daughter for three nights at knifepointAfter that he continued raping her without encountering resistanceEvery time the teen told him she felt like talking to her mother Abbas stopped herBut on May 15 she called up her mother from a local PCO and her concerned mother convinced her to return home When the teenager spoke about this to Abbas he brutally assaulted herThe next day she met her mother any way and for the first time told her the reason why she left home The horrified mother decided to register a complaint against her husband after consulting her other relativesPolice saysPSI Wagh said ldquoThe case was registered at around 12 pm on Monday and both the accused men were arrested by 4 pm the same day The father who is also a driver by profession has been booked under section 376 rape while the rickshaw driver has been booked under section 363 kidnapping 366 A kidnapping abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage and 376 rape of the Indian Penal Code The two have also been booked under sections 4 and 8 of the Protection Of Children from Sexual Offences Actrdquo