A woman in India has said that she was raped by four police officers at a station after she refused to pay a bribe.
The incident occurred at a station in the Hamirpur district of Uttar Pradesh where the woman went to secure her husband’s release.
This comes just a month after 2 young girls were gang-raped and hung on a tree while on their way to the toilet with a police officer being named as one of the perpetrators.
The Guardian reports:
“At 11.30pm when there was no one in the room the sub-inspector took me to his room and raped me inside the police station,” the woman told CNN-IBN.
The woman filed a complaint with a senior officer on Wednesday over the attack, which allegedly occurred when she refused to pay a bribe to secure the release of her husband.
“The procedure will be followed. The victim has filed a complaint and the guilty will be arrested soon,” Virendra Kumar Shekhar, a police official from Hamirpur, said.
Sub-inspector Balbir Singh said a criminal case had been lodged against four officers from the station.
The case is the latest in a string of horrific rapes and murders in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, where the chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, is under growing political pressure over his handling of law and order.
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