I used to call him 'chacha', and he raped me: Survivor

The woman meets RPF hawaldar PK Singh at Diva in 2015 while she is looking for a job They stay in touch IllustrationsRavi JadhavThe blot on the uniform of the citys law enforcers is getting deeper This time a 23yearold woman has accused three Railway Protection Force RPF personnel including one of inspector rank of raping her inside the RPF thana at Diva railway station The woman alleges that she was tricked into coming to the station in the wee hours and raped after being offered a spiked drinkIn January one of Singhs colleagues MS Bhagel calls her 25 times When she answers he tells her PK Singh has met with an accidentWhile the incident occurred this January the police officials allegedly continued to torture her for months after threatening to get her arrested in a fake case if she complainedWhen she goes to the police station she realises she has been lured under a false pretext and her terrible ordeal beginsFinally last week she mustered the courage to approach GRP commissioner Niket Kaushik and narrated her ordeal to him the RPF comes under the Government Railway Police GRP Kaushik immediately instructed DCP Central Railway Rupali Ambure to record the womans statement and initiate an inquiryAlso Read Mumbai Cops face inquiry over rescued sex workers rape caseOn September 1 DCP Amburerecorded a detailed statement of the woman at her office An FIR is yet to be lodged in the case because the woman is unable to recall a few details accurately Once this is sorted out an FIR will be lodged DCP Ambure has saidThe ordealldquoOn the night of January 14 around 10 pm I got a call from constable Mahendra Singh Bhagelrdquo said the woman who works with a cosmetics shop in DombivliThe woman who is from Bhadohi Uttar Pradesh had met Bhagel and the alleged rapist cops constable B K Singh and officer Deepak Rathore through the third alleged rapist RPF hawaldar PK Singh whom she had met in 2015 while looking for a job in MumbaiThe woman said ldquoI had ignored Bhagels call because I was too tired but between 10 pm and 2 am he had called 25 timesWhen I finally picked up the call he said PK Singh had met with an accident and told me to come to the RPF chowky I rushed there only to find PK Singh completely finerdquo she saidLiquor and pornInside the chowky I saw PK Singh and his colleagues watching porn on their computer and drinking liquor They told me to waitin another room as they had called me for some important work she said ldquoThey gave me a soft drink while I waited Sometime later PK Singh told me to come along with him He said he wanted to show me something He then took me to the room of a senior officer He pushed me inside the room and locked the door from the outside I started shouting for him to open the door I had also started feeling dizzy I got even more scared when I saw that BK Singh and Rathore were already inside the roomDo whatever he saysShe said when she was begging for PK Singh to open the door he told her ldquoWo jo bolte hain waisa kar lo bohot din se unki aurat nahi aayi hai Do whatever he says his wife hasnt met him for longrdquo Rathore and BK Singh then grabbed the woman who struggled violently ldquoDuring the scuffle Rathore told me that he would get me a job if I did what he wanted When I started shouting they forced me on to one of the tables in the room and then raped me one by onerdquo the woman saidSlapped raped meldquoI was in a semiconscious and seminude state and in a lot of pain I was scared that my family would be defamed now While they were leaving the room PK Singh entered By then I had gained consciousness and was furious with Singhrdquo she said But Singh just slapped her and forced himself on her on the same table ldquoAfter raping me PK Singh threatened me saying ifI told anyone about this he would get me arrested by the GRP in a fake caserdquo the woman said She was then allowed to go home The womans ordeal had however only just begunRead Story Mumbai cops gift rescued sex worker to informer who then rapes herThe cops continued to call her at odd hours ldquoPK Singh once called me at 2 am to the chowky and made me dance for them As they knew I was scared they would abuse and harass merdquo she saidldquoPK Singh would tell me to sleep with people he knew in Kalyan Dombivli and Kalwa These also included boys who sold general items on local trains I dont know how I bore this torture for so many monthsrdquoFrustrated with the continued harassment the woman even broke her SIM card and started using a new oneA few months ago the woman approached the Kalwa GRP to complain but the cops there allegedly did not entertain her Outside the chowky she met a social activist Mohan Bitla to whom she narrated everything Bitla suggested that she meet senior police officersFair investigationSenior GRP officers told midday that it was a sensitive matter as serious allegations had been made against the security personnel The officers said there were a few parts in the womans statement that were unclearldquoAs the incident took place around eight months back she does not recall a few things clearly However ensuring a fair investigation a preliminary inquiry to verify the allegations of the woman has been started and once facts corroborating the allegations emerge in the probe an FIR will immediately be registeredrdquo said DCP AmbureDespite repeated attempts Inspector incharge Diva RPF Thana Rajkumar Dhanvij remained unavailable for commentI wanted to kill myselfThe woman said ldquoI was devastated by what PK Singh and his colleagues had done to me that I wanted to kill myself It was only the thought of my 4yearold daughter back in UP that is keeping me alive I want to do something for herrdquoRan away from homeThe woman who has a son and a daughter said she had run away from her inlaws house in mid2014 to start a life afresh in Mumbai She said she had been married at the age of 16 to a man from VaranasiThe marriage however was one of mental and physical harassment at the hands of her inlaws and husbandA few years ago she took her daughter and ran away to her parents house leaving her son behind There she realised that her family too did not support her and in 2014 she ran away to MumbaiThe woman found rented accommodation at Diva One day after returning from giving a job interview the woman met PK Singh As Singh was from UP the woman thought he may help her find a job He promised to help and the two stayed in touchldquoI used to call him chacha uncle and he would call me beta I never doubted his intentions I used to go to his Diva office to request him to find a job for me There I met his colleagues BK Singh and Bhagelrdquo she said