After mid-day reported about the alleged rape case against a Juhu-based tuition teacher, (‘Police negligence helped rape accused flee country’, September 26) the family of the 15-year-old survivor decided to come forward to talk about the incident.

The girl’s parents claim that the accused, Abhijeet Matharu (50), had planned the rape and, after the incident, was calling her incessantly to keep tabs on whether she had disclosed the incident to her parents.