Defendant’s house demolished, one more pending: Video

Ujjain: In a crucial move, authorities demolished the house of one of the accused in a brutal gang rape case in Ujjain. The incident involved a 20-year-old tribal woman who was raped in a field in Tajpur, Ujjain.

The hut of accused Imran near the crime scene was razed to the ground on Saturday with the help of police and the panchayat. The authorities have also planned to demolish the house of another accused, Ravi.

The gruesome crime took place on Wednesday when the victim, who was travelling from Dindori to Indore with her husband in search of work, lost her mobile phone. The couple then took a train to Ujjain to look for work at Indira Nagar Square.

Ravi, who was travelling on a motorcycle, offered them work and took them to a shed in Tajpur. He instructed the woman to clean the shed and took her husband with him on the pretext of getting supplies. Then Imran came and raped the woman, followed by Ravi, who returned after leaving her husband in Ujjain and raped her too.

The woman managed to escape. She ran 1.5 kilometers to a quarry, where workers rescued her and alerted the police. Panwasa police reacted quickly, arrested both accused and brought the woman back with her husband.

In response to the crime, two days later the police demolished Imran’s house and the shed where the attack had taken place, signalling a decisive action against the perpetrators.