VADODARA: A student of MSU who also worked at a call centre committed suicide on Thursday after she was allegedly raped by two of her colleagues.
The girl was staying alone in Subhanpura after her mother died seven months ago and she reportedly did not get along well with her father.
However, she hung herself at her father’s residence in a society in the Laxmipura area of the city.
While police started investigations after registering the incident as an unnatural death found the statements out of place and informed doctors that the case looked suspicious.
“It came to light that the girl had been staying alone away from her father.
She came to her father’s residence only on June 8,” said police inspector R C Kanamiya, who is investigating the case.
Meanwhile the father, who had been telling the police all along that he did not know the reason behind her extreme step, revealed that the girl had been raped.
The police also found injury marks on the victim’s neck and hand as well as traces of semen on her.
Based on investigation, police arrested two of her colleagues — Dishant Kahar and Nazim Mirza — who were working with her in a business process solutions company in the city on Thursday night.
Cops unearthed the fact that the girl had been raped after the duo allegedly got her drunk.
Cops said Kahar raped her in the presence of Mirza on Tuesday evening.
According to case details, Kahar and Mirza came to the victim’s residence to meet her on Tuesday evening.
At the same time, another girl Radhika (name changed) was present at the victim’s residence.
She left the house initially and so did the two youths.
However, a little later the duo returned to the victim’s residence with a bottle of liquor.
It has been alleged that the victim was forced to consume liquor by the two after which Kahar committed the crime in front of Mirza.
When another friend of the victim, Shivam (name changed), came to her residence, he saw her and informed the father who rushed to the place and took her to his residence.
The father told the police that the victim had hung herself at his residence on Thursday morning and it was Shivam who informed him.
When the father reached home, the girl was being taken to the Gotri GMERS Hospital where she was declared dead.
“He (father) was aware about it, but did not do anything about it fearing that his daughter would get a bad name,” Kanamiya added.
Police have recovered an audio recording made by the victim as well as a suicide note that she had left behind.
The investigators are, however, tight lipped about their contents and said that this would be released only after investigations reached some stage.
The rape and suicide victim used to play kabaddi when she was in school and sources said that she had represented the state too in the sport.
However, details in this regard were not available.
(The victim’s identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)