THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The victim of Kadinamkulam gang-rape incident has told the police that after raping her, her husband caused burns on her thighs using cigarette butts. Then he beat her and her son cruelly, threatening her not to complaint to the police. She ran out, saying that she will return after dropping her son to a nearby house.
“I have not seen my husband’s friends who had raped me but I have heard him mention their names. If I see them again, I will be able to identify them. I was fed with alcohol forcefully at a house at Puthukkurichi. During the boozing session there, the house owner’s wife was also present,” she told the police.
The incident happened at around 4:30 on Thursday. The woman’s husband took her and her child to the house in a car. The husband and her six friends had a boozing session there. According to the woman it was her husband who made her drink alcohol. After some time, she was allegedly raped by them.
The woman who ran out carrying her child was rescued by some youths whom she had met on the way. The youths took her and the child in their car to her home and alerted the police.
The woman is currently under treatment in Chirayinkeezhu hospital. Her husband and three friends are in police custody.