Mumbai, November 23: An 18-year-old woman with an intellectual disability has been raped for the fourth time in as many years, said Dindoshi police on Thursday. Earlier she has been raped three times and all the 11 accused have been put behind bars. The police have nabbed one Raju Puransingh, 25, for the latest incident, who raped the Malad-based teenager after ‘marrying’ her.

The police said that the case came to light after the teenager disappeared. Her family stated that she disappeared on November 14 and was untraced. Though being approached to police for help, the family members were turned down stating that she might have be at her relatives’ home.  Serial Rapist Used to Break Legs of Victims to Get Aroused Before Rape: Gurugram

The family members then took her photograph and searched for her in the Aksa-Dana Pani beach locality, as she was previously raped near the area, but was not found there. The police finally registered the complaint on November 21 and launched a massive manhunt to find her near Aksa beach, Madh and their surrounding areas.

The police, however, after a long search traced her at Versova as they got the tip that she was last seen near the Madh Bhati village. They scanned CCTV footage of the area and saw that she was moving towards Versova.

After a long search, a local informed them that the teenager was last seen near the Madh Bhati village. On the basis of that tip, cops scanned CCTV footage of the area and saw that she was moving towards Versova. She was found her sitting outside a temple on Wednesday night and then taken to the Dindoshi police station.

Initially she was not in a condition to reveal anything, but later she told her elder sister about the horrific incident. Based on her sister’s statement, police registered the FIR.

He sister informed the police that she met Raju who took her to his Versova home for few days. He married her later at a temple and the couple headed to Juhu beach. She even made a tattoo on her arm. Later in the night she was raped at his house and after a day, he snatched her mangalsutra and threw her outside the house.

With the inputs in hand, the police arrested Raju and booked him under kidnapping and gang rape sections of the Indian Penal Code and the POCSO Act, and Raju has been for Section 376 (rape).

Informing more, Senior police inspector from Rajaram Vhanmane from Dindoshi police station said, as Mid-Day quotes, "The accused arrested on Thursday, Raju Puransingh, resided in Versova in a rented flat and worked at a private company as a caretaker. He has been booked and arrested under the charges of rape and would be produced before the court on Friday."

Stating the medical condition of the victim, another police officer said, “"The teenager is intellectually disabled. After the first incident, we'd suggested her parents to send her to the Child Welfare Committee (CWC) or some other NGO for better treatment and also suggested several private centres in Matunga, Bandra and other government centres in Dongri. But her parents refused to send her there and even gave the same in writing. After that, we requested CWC officials to counsel her at her home. Several officers counselled her for many months."

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