Revenge rape: Mother asked son to rape 16-year-old niece for rejecting marriage proposal

Mumbai: Shakira Bano (48) forced her 31-year-old son, Rashid Ali to rape the girl whom he wanted to marry but faced refusal from the girl and her parents. Her parents are from Nagpur, they had sent their daughter to study in a junior college in Thane. She was living in her aunt’s house for the past 7-years.

Shakira Bano approached the parents of the girl with a marriage proposal but they refused and called back the girl to Nagpur. Shakira Bano asked the girl to come to Thane to collect her certificates. Unaware of the plan, the girl reached Thane. Shakira Bano tied up the hands of the girl, pushed her into the bedroom and locked the door from outside. She asked her son to rape the girl. Her son entered the bedroom and raped her. He also threatened her against telling anyone about the rape and told her to go back home to seek the approval of her marriage with him.

The girl Navpada police station and told her rape incident. The police called her parents and sent the girl to hospital for medical checkup. The police arrested Shakira Bano and her son.

The girl never wanted to marry Rashid and she had slapped him in front of her parents a week back after he had allegedly tried to touch her inappropriately.