It was an argument over mobile phone repairing that turned into a nightmare for a 24-year old woman from Naranpura.
The woman told the police that the repairman used mobile clips in her phone to blackmail her, abducted and confined her to a flat in Juhapura where he raped over one-and-a-half months.
The victim, a primary school teacher in a town near Ahmedabad, rushed to Vejalpur police station on Saturday with a laptop and mobile phones, and told the cops she had escaped from the clutches of her rapist.
"She had given her mobile phone for repair around six months back. She was not satisfied with the service and had complained to the repairman's boss. The accused Mohammed Asif Sayed, a resident of Bapunagar, was suspended, which made him angry and decided to get even," said MC Patel, inspector of Vejalpur police station. Sayed has been arrested.
The teacher, by then, got transferred outside Ahmedabad where Sayed followed her and tried to blackmail her with some of the photos he had extracted from her phone during repairs. When she did not give in, he threatened to expose her to her parents. She was then abducted and taken to a flat near Juhapura water tank rented by Sayed. She was allegedly held captive between April 8 and May 22 and was raped repeatedly.
The victim's family filed a report on her missing at Adalaj police station early in April. "According to the victim's complaint, Sayed had also shot a video of her being allegedly raped and had threatened to upload it on the internet. She managed to sneak out of the flat on Saturday and came to the police station. We arrested Sayed on Sunday and have got two days remand," said Patel. (Ahmadabaad TOI 25th May 2010)
