A 19 year old woman from Jaunpur, who is currently in first year graduation course at Delhi University, was allegedly drugged and gang raped by three men repeatedly over four days at a rented accommodation in Lucknow’s Golf City area.

Two of the three accused hail from the survivor’s village in the Janpur district and were reportedly known to her. As per the complaint, the survivors were lured by one of the accused to get off a train in Lucknow while travelling from Jaunpur to Delhi. 

Following the incident, the woman initially lodged a complaint with the police at Anand Vihar Railway Station in Delhi, ahead of which, a zero FIR was registered there and later transferred to Luckow Police on May 23. 

The case 

The case was registered under charges of gang rape, wrongful confinement, casuing hurt by poison, and criminal intimidation was subsequently registered by Lucknow police, against two named accused and one unidentified person. Four police teams have been formed to arrest the accused. 

The sequence of the event as per the complaint of the survivor, started when she had travelled to her native village in Jaunpur during the holidays and left for Delhi on May 15. 

The survivor alleged that after boarding a train from Jafarabad railway station, she contacted Shivam Yadav (20), an old acquaintance, through messages during the journey. 

She further alleged that she met Shivam at Lucknow’s Charbagh railway station along with another man, Sunny Yadav (19), and got off the train following their persuasion. 

The two men, as per the survivor, took her in a cab to a room in a private hospital, and she was given cold coffee, after which she began feeling drowsy. She alleged that she was then sexually assaulted multiple times during the night of May 15 and 16. 

The assault as per the survivors account, continued on May 16, by the second accused, this lasted for next two days, which includes a third unidentified man who was brought to the room. 

The survivor as per the complaint was then taken to Chargagh railway station where a general ticket was purchased for her and the survivor was abandoned on the platform on May 18. Subsequently, the survivor boarded a train and travelled to Delhi. 

Police records cited in the case file state that the medico-legal case (MLC) documented allegations of sexual assault by three men in Lucknow on multiple occasions on May 16 and 17. The complainant also alleged that she had been administered an unknown intoxicating substance during the incident.

The records further noted that counseling support was provided through a counselor from the Sakhi One Stop Centre.

According to Delhi Police records, medical samples were collected, sealed and taken into custody as evidence.