NEW DELHI: Delhi is fast becoming unsafe for Uzbek women. In the last 20 days Delhi police registered two cases of rape and gangrape filed by Uzbek women. On Saturday, a 22-year-old Uzbek woman has alleged that she was raped for nearly six months by a man who had offered her a job in south Delhi's Mehrauli area.
According to the police, the victim said that the accused took away her passport and money and threatened her too. The accused is yet to be arrested as the victim has not recorded her statement in front of a magistrate.
In her complaint, the woman alleged that the accused got in touch with her through Facebook and posed as senior executive with a Gurgaon-based company, he said. After she came to India, he took away her passport and money and started living with her and raped her over a period of six months, they added.
Eariler, in March another Uzbekistan woman was allegedly beaten up and gangraped by four men. The victim had alleged that she was raped by her ex-boyfriend and his friends at her rented flat in south Delhi’s Masoodpur area. The incident had taken place on the intervening night of March 9 and 10 but the woman was quite scared and didn’t report the matter to the police.