Boyfriend, 4 others rape 19-yr-old after spiking her drink
Chennai: Police have arrested four college students and launched a hunt for another student for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman after spiking her drinks at a party. The arrested include the woman’s boyfriend K Sivanandan (19) of Anakaputhur.
Police said Sivanandan, a first year hotel management student of a private college in the city, had taken the woman to a friend’s place Sunday evening where she passed out after having drinks. He dropped her at her place Monday morning after he and his friends allegedly raped her. The woman, a salesgirl in a supermarket, has been admitted to a government hospital in
Egmore with bleeding injuries. She is now stable, doctors said.
The incident came to light when the doctors treating her found signs of rape. They informed police on Tuesday. Following this, Sankar Nagar police inspector M Christopher got the woman’s statement in the presence of the doctors. Joint commissioner of police (south zone) K P Shanmuga Rajeswaran said, “Sivanandan lured his girlfriend and took her to his friend Arvind Santhosh’s house in Anakaputhur. The accused apparently spiked her drinks and raped her.” The others arrested are Santhosh (19), an engineering student, Hariharan (19), a first year polytechnic student, and Deepan Kumar (18), a first year BTech student. A search is on for their friend Navin (19), a first year engineering student. Boyfriend turns fiend, rapes drugged teen through night
Four Of His Friends Too Gang-Rape 19-Year-Old
Chennai: Five college students who devised and executed a detailed plan to rape a 19-year-old woman, a girlfriend of one of the youths, have been arrested. The woman has been admitted to a government hospital.
On Sunday night, K Sivanandan, a hotel management student, took his girlfriend Menaka (name changed) to his friend M Arvind Santhosh’s house, saying his friend was unwell, police said quoting the woman’s statement from the hospital bed. According to Menaka’s statement, she was shocked to see Santhosh drinking alcohol with three other friends there. One of his friends, N Deepan Kumar, forced her to have a drink which, she later realised, was spiked. As she was losing consciousness, Kumar took her to a bedroom, where she was raped by the five friends. Police said they kept giving her alcohol through the night to prevent her from regaining senses.
When she did not regain consciousness on Monday morning, police said, they panicked and took her to a private hospital run by Santhosh’s father in Pallavaram. Doctors there treated her and later the youths shifted her to another private hospital. Meanwhile, Menaka’s mother, who lives alone after her husband’s death a few years ago, called up Sivanandan asking why her daughter had not returned home.
He told her that her daughter was unwell and was admitted to a private hospital. Soon, Sivanandan and Kumar brought Menaka to her house in an auto. When Menaka regained her memory on Monday evening, she informed her mother about incidents. Her mother took her to a government hospital in Chromepet which referred her to a the Government Maternity Hospital in Egmore. Doctors there found signs of rape and called police.
Police arrested Sivanandan and his friends Santhosh (19), a first year engineering student; Hariharan (19), a first year polytechnic student near Vandalur; and Kumar (18), a first year BTech student near Tambaram. Police have launched a hunt for Navin (19), a first year engineering student of a college in Kattankolathur.
Police said, Sivanandan and Menaka were classmates in school. After high school, Menaka went to work in a supermarket, while Sivanandan joined a hotel management institute. “As Menaka’s family knew Sivanandan well, they didn’t restrict him visiting their house. Taking advantage, Sivanandan and his friends devised the plan,” a police officer said.
DANGER SIGNS HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BEING A VICTIM OF SPIKED DRINKS OR DATE RAPE? 1
Don’t accept
drinks from
other people. Open containers yourself 2
Keep your drink with you at all
times, even when you go to the restroom 3
Don’t share drinks. Don’t
drink anything that tastes or smells strange 4
Have a nondrinking friend
with you to make sure nothing happens
ARE THERE WAYS TO TELL IF YOU HAVE BEEN DRUGGED? The victim may not be aware of the attack even 8 to 12 hours after it occurs. Date rape drugs also leave the body very quickly and there may be no proof that drugs have been used. But there are some tell-tale signs:
You feel drunk but haven’t had any alcohol, or the effects of alcohol are stronger than usual
You wake up feeling very hung over and disoriented or having no memory of a period of time
You remember having a drink, but cannot recall anything after that
Your clothes are torn. You feel like you had sex, but you cannot remember it
Source: US department of health and human services IN THE EYES OF THE LAW
FORCE AND CONSENT Section 375 of the IPC says it is rape when sexual intercourse is against the victim’s will or without her consent. Consent is immaterial if it is obtained by threat or if the victim is under 16
The law also says it’s rape if consent was given by a woman when she was intoxicated,
or was of unsound mind, or was administered a drug by the accused
A 1983 amendment says the court should presume that the victim did not give consent if she says so. The burden of proof to show that there was consent will then shift to the accused
A 2008 SC judgment says an accused can be convicted merely on the testimony of a victim, but subordinate courts often seek evidence of physical resistance or injury marks to prove that a woman had not given her consent
The victim has to give evidence during trial to nail the accused; she can testify through videoconferencing and judges can intervene to ensure that she isn’t harassed during trial
GANG-RAPE CASES | When a woman is raped by one or more persons in a group, all the persons in the group will be charged with gang-rape. For example, if five persons force the woman to have sexual intercourse with only one person, all the five can be held guilty of gang rape. The punishment is 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment to life imprisonment. If the court imposes a jail term of less than 10 years, then the judge will have to state special reasons for reducing the term in the judgment (Section 376 2 g of the IPC)
Police said Sivanandan, a first year hotel management student of a private college in the city, had taken the woman to a friend’s place Sunday evening where she passed out after having drinks. He dropped her at her place Monday morning after he and his friends allegedly raped her. The woman, a salesgirl in a supermarket, has been admitted to a government hospital in
Egmore with bleeding injuries. She is now stable, doctors said.
The incident came to light when the doctors treating her found signs of rape. They informed police on Tuesday. Following this, Sankar Nagar police inspector M Christopher got the woman’s statement in the presence of the doctors. Joint commissioner of police (south zone) K P Shanmuga Rajeswaran said, “Sivanandan lured his girlfriend and took her to his friend Arvind Santhosh’s house in Anakaputhur. The accused apparently spiked her drinks and raped her.” The others arrested are Santhosh (19), an engineering student, Hariharan (19), a first year polytechnic student, and Deepan Kumar (18), a first year BTech student. A search is on for their friend Navin (19), a first year engineering student. Boyfriend turns fiend, rapes drugged teen through night
Four Of His Friends Too Gang-Rape 19-Year-Old
Chennai: Five college students who devised and executed a detailed plan to rape a 19-year-old woman, a girlfriend of one of the youths, have been arrested. The woman has been admitted to a government hospital.
On Sunday night, K Sivanandan, a hotel management student, took his girlfriend Menaka (name changed) to his friend M Arvind Santhosh’s house, saying his friend was unwell, police said quoting the woman’s statement from the hospital bed. According to Menaka’s statement, she was shocked to see Santhosh drinking alcohol with three other friends there. One of his friends, N Deepan Kumar, forced her to have a drink which, she later realised, was spiked. As she was losing consciousness, Kumar took her to a bedroom, where she was raped by the five friends. Police said they kept giving her alcohol through the night to prevent her from regaining senses.
When she did not regain consciousness on Monday morning, police said, they panicked and took her to a private hospital run by Santhosh’s father in Pallavaram. Doctors there treated her and later the youths shifted her to another private hospital. Meanwhile, Menaka’s mother, who lives alone after her husband’s death a few years ago, called up Sivanandan asking why her daughter had not returned home.
He told her that her daughter was unwell and was admitted to a private hospital. Soon, Sivanandan and Kumar brought Menaka to her house in an auto. When Menaka regained her memory on Monday evening, she informed her mother about incidents. Her mother took her to a government hospital in Chromepet which referred her to a the Government Maternity Hospital in Egmore. Doctors there found signs of rape and called police.
Police arrested Sivanandan and his friends Santhosh (19), a first year engineering student; Hariharan (19), a first year polytechnic student near Vandalur; and Kumar (18), a first year BTech student near Tambaram. Police have launched a hunt for Navin (19), a first year engineering student of a college in Kattankolathur.
Police said, Sivanandan and Menaka were classmates in school. After high school, Menaka went to work in a supermarket, while Sivanandan joined a hotel management institute. “As Menaka’s family knew Sivanandan well, they didn’t restrict him visiting their house. Taking advantage, Sivanandan and his friends devised the plan,” a police officer said.
DANGER SIGNS HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOURSELF FROM BEING A VICTIM OF SPIKED DRINKS OR DATE RAPE? 1
Don’t accept
drinks from
other people. Open containers yourself 2
Keep your drink with you at all
times, even when you go to the restroom 3
Don’t share drinks. Don’t
drink anything that tastes or smells strange 4
Have a nondrinking friend
with you to make sure nothing happens
ARE THERE WAYS TO TELL IF YOU HAVE BEEN DRUGGED? The victim may not be aware of the attack even 8 to 12 hours after it occurs. Date rape drugs also leave the body very quickly and there may be no proof that drugs have been used. But there are some tell-tale signs:
You feel drunk but haven’t had any alcohol, or the effects of alcohol are stronger than usual
You wake up feeling very hung over and disoriented or having no memory of a period of time
You remember having a drink, but cannot recall anything after that
Your clothes are torn. You feel like you had sex, but you cannot remember it
Source: US department of health and human services IN THE EYES OF THE LAW
FORCE AND CONSENT Section 375 of the IPC says it is rape when sexual intercourse is against the victim’s will or without her consent. Consent is immaterial if it is obtained by threat or if the victim is under 16
The law also says it’s rape if consent was given by a woman when she was intoxicated,
or was of unsound mind, or was administered a drug by the accused
A 1983 amendment says the court should presume that the victim did not give consent if she says so. The burden of proof to show that there was consent will then shift to the accused
A 2008 SC judgment says an accused can be convicted merely on the testimony of a victim, but subordinate courts often seek evidence of physical resistance or injury marks to prove that a woman had not given her consent
The victim has to give evidence during trial to nail the accused; she can testify through videoconferencing and judges can intervene to ensure that she isn’t harassed during trial
GANG-RAPE CASES | When a woman is raped by one or more persons in a group, all the persons in the group will be charged with gang-rape. For example, if five persons force the woman to have sexual intercourse with only one person, all the five can be held guilty of gang rape. The punishment is 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment to life imprisonment. If the court imposes a jail term of less than 10 years, then the judge will have to state special reasons for reducing the term in the judgment (Section 376 2 g of the IPC)
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