Nine months later, Jaipur gangrape victim drugged and gangraped again

The 26-year-old woman told the police that four men forced her into a van, drugged her and then raped her one by one. They threatened to "eliminate" her and her family if she did not withdraw the earlier case against two of the accused. Police said the woman, who works at a library run by a voluntary agency, was waiting for her autorickshaw, in the Mahavir Nagar neighbourhood, when around 4.15 pm, a red Maruti van pulled up close. The men, with their faces covered, got off, pushed her into the van, tied her feet and hands and then raped her. Police said she was reportedly given asedative and then at 7.30 pm, she was dropped off at the same spot from where she had been abducted.

The men told her to withdraw her case against Prehlad Singh Krishnyya and Dharmendra Poonia, two of the accused in the hostel rape case.

SP (South) Kapil Garg told a news agency that she was in a dazed state and that the police have launched a "massive manhunt" to arrest the culprits.

Earlier, when the auto-rickshaw driver didn’t find her waiting at the office, he informed her family who waited for an hour and then called the police.

A three-doctor board conducted a medical examination at the Sawai Mansingh hospital around midnight. Police declined to comment on the report but sources said an injury had been found on her neck and that there were no internal injuries, possibly because she was drugged.

Activists of several women’s organisations, including the Janvadi Mahila Samiti, the PUCL held demonstrations near the civil secretariat here today calling for the immediate arrest of the guilty. Theyalso criticized the police for having failed to arrest all the accused in the university rape case.

Nine girls buried alive in Pali

Nine teenaged girls were today buried alive when earth caved in at Rajasthan’s Pali district, police said. Fourteen women and girls were engaged in digging when the mishap took place. Five women were rescued but nine trapped girls died on the spot, police said. All the bodies have been extricated.