New Delhi, February 4: A 19-year-old woman was arrested in Delhi on Monday for allegedly raping another woman by using a sex toy. The accused, identified as Shivani, was booked under Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and produced before the Karkardooma Court which sent her to one-day police custody. The victim had alleged that Shivani had used a sex toy and forcefully committed anal sex upon her.

The incident came to fore in October last year, days after the Supreme Court decriminalised homosexuality under Section 377. However, the aspect of consent remains a debatable topic. While two men were booked and one of them was arrested as well, the victim, even after repeated attempts, had failed to lodge a police complaint against the accused woman.  She had gone to Seemapuri police station in Delhi, but cops refused to book the accused.

In her statement to the magistrate under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code, the victim, who had come to Delhi from a state in eastern India for work, alleged Shivani held her hostage for over two months and subjected her to repeated sexual and physical assaults. She alleged that the accused tied artificial male genitalia to her waist and then forcefully committed anal sex upon her.  Section 377 Partially Scrapped, Homosexuality Decriminalised by Supreme Court.

During her job to bring investors, the survivor met Rohit, another accused, who told her that he worked for HCL and was ready to invest in her business. Rohit took her to an apartment in Dilshad Colony where he and another accused named Rahul, raped her and shot obscene videos to blackmail her, reported News18. Later, it became a daily affair when she was sent to different 'customers'.

Recounting the horror she went through during captivity, the victim said Rohit and Rahul pinned her down on all fours on the bed while the accused woman “raped” her using a sex toy to “make her ready for anal sex for her customers". "The woman was not forced to do it. She was deriving pleasure out of it. I want to see her punished along with the other two," she was quoted as saying.

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