A 22-year-old woman who was sitting with her 23-year-old fiance in Sai Upvan city forest in Ghaziabad was allegedly sexually harassed by police.
According to the woman, three men, who arrived in a police vehicle, slapped her fiance and demanded ₹10,000 for letting them go.
“It was around 12 noon when three men arrived on a PRV and started threatening us. They slapped my fiance and one of them demanded ₹10,000 for letting us go. We requested them with folded hands and even touched their feet but they did not budge. Later, Rakesh Kumar behaved badly and started forcing me to get physical with him. The third man also demanded ₹5.5 lakhs... We were held there for three hours during which the suspects repeatedly touched me inappropriately...,” the woman said in the FIR, as per Hindustan Times.
The suspects continued to harass her over the phone even after the incident and visited her house.
A senior police official said that the woman initially did not report the incident for several days but later she dialled the police emergency number when the suspects continued troubling her.
An FIR has been registered. The accused are absconding.
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