Dimapur, April 13 (MExN): 23-year-old post graduate student from Nagaland who had been reportedly raped by Afghan national in Hyderabad on April 10 “looks okay” – health and emotional wise, chairperson of Naga Christian Fellowship, Hyderabad Venusa Tinyi told The Morung Express in a telephonic conversation Saturday.
Venusa informed that the victim has been moved from her residence to another place to protect her identity and privacy. While appreciating the victim for being “courageous” to file an FIR on her own, he expressed concern for the Nort Eastern students in Hyderabad stating that the city is an educational hub for foreign nationals and “North Easterners are too welcoming, open minded and friendly” without understanding others’ intention. He stated that the North Eeastern organizations in Hyderabad are working on spreading awareness among students to be more cautious.
The accused Noyel Yousuf, a second year Bachelor of Engineering student of the University College of Engineering, Osmania University was arrested by the Osmania University (OU) police on April 12 following a complaint lodged by the victim on April 11.
“Yousuf and the girl have been friends and he was interested in her, but she ignored his overtures. On April 10, the victim came out of her house after he threatened to commit suicide. Yousuf took her on a long ride on his vehicle and again proposed to her, she flatly rejected it,’’ assistant commissioner of police (Kachiguda) J Ranjan Rathan Kumar was quoted in the TOI report. “After this, he forcibly took her to his room in Govind Nagar, Amberpet, and raped her.”
Meanwhile, Express News Service (ENS) report said after medical reports of the victim confirmed rape, the OU police registered cases against Yousuf under Sections 375 (Rape), 326 (Voluntarily causing grievous hurt), 307 (Attempt to murder) and 506 (Criminal intimidation) of the Indian Panel Code and arrested him. Yousuf reportedly confessed he raped her. He told the police he had proposed to her 15 days back but she refused. He continued to be on talking terms with her while nursing a grudge against her and hatched a plan to kidnap and assault her sexually.
