New Delhi: A 19-year-old woman in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur was allegedly poisoned by a group of men for refusing to have physical relation with them, police said on Friday.
According to a report by news agency PTI, the victim’s father lodged a complaint at Halena Police Station saying five of his daughter’s classmates, who were studying in a private college in Bharatpur, had been forcing her to have physical relation with them and when she refused, they poisoned her.
Police said the matter is being investigated and no arrest has been made in the case so far.
According to SHO Halena Vijay Singh, a case was registered on Wednesday under Indian Penal Code sections 306 (abetment of suicide), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison), and 341 (punishment of wrongful restraint).
The complainant alleged that on Tuesday, his daughter, who lives with her grandparents in Halena town in Bharatpur, had called her mother to say that some students of her college had been forcing her to have physical relationship with them. They also used to pass derogatory remarks against her, she had told her mother, the complainant said.
On Wednesday around 3pm, the accused followed her while she was on her way back home and forcefully made her drink some poison-laced liquid, police said. When she reached home, she started vomiting.
The woman was rushed to a nearby hospital where she succumbed during treatment, police added.
The viscera samples of the deceased have been sent to the forensic laboratory for examination and an investigation has been taken up, the SHO said.