Abused for 6 years, Delhi woman says husband must pay for his crimes

June 18, 2010

Nearly three months after she filed an FIR against her husband for forcing her to have group sex with his friends, a woman in Delhi is seeking justice for the six years of pain and humiliation.

After an FIR was filed on April 4, the Delhi-based businessman Kuldeepak Arora was arrested from the Delhi airport.

"I contacted Kuldeepak on his email ID after seeing the matrimonial ad in newspaper on July 6, 2003. We started chatting and met first in London and then in Dubai. Finally, our families met in Hong Kong to decide about our marriage. We had a lavish wedding at Kamrej in Surat and then a reception in Delhi," she told MiD DAY over the phone from Surat.

"Soon after marriage, my husband and in-laws started harassing me for dowry. Due to my husband's business in Mumbai and Hong Kong we used to stay in Delhi and Mumbai alternatively. They started beating me up and even tried to drown me," she said.

She then wrote to her sister who asked her to be patient. Meanwhile, frustrated with his dowry demands not being met, Arora unleashed hell on her.

"I was forced to have unnatural sex but he did not stop at that. He forced me to have physical relations with his brothers Kulbhushan and Dharmender as also with his business partner NP Sehgal," she alleged.

The woman returned to her family in Surat and filed a police complaint against Arora after six years of marriage.

The accused Kuldeepak Arora is an exporter with business interests in Mumbai and Hong Kong. When the Surat police nabbed him at the IGI airport on April 5, Arora was leaving for Nepal. He owns a company called Bombay Brothers Audio Visual Company Pvt Ltd. and imported cellphones to India.

Arora, who owns a plush bungalow in the south Delhi's East of Kailash, used to stay most of the time at his Goregaon apartment in Mumbai.

"Recently, I got to know that my husband was married before he tied the knot with me. He had not divorced his first wife whom he married in 1997. Their divorce was not settled till 2006 and a case was on in Delhi's Tees Hazari court," she said.

Investigation officer Surendra Singh Wala told MiD DAY from Surat over the phone that the FIR in the case was lodged on April 4, following which a look-out notice was issued against Kuldeepak Arora. "The FIR names the accused along with his brother, brother-in-law and his business partner. Apart from allegations of forced group sex, there are charges of torture and threats to life."

The FIR has been lodged under sections 498A (subjecting a married woman to cruelty), 307 (attempt to murder), 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 506(2) (criminal intimidation) and 114 (abetment of any offence) and sections 3 and 7 of the dowry Act.

Arora was produced before a Surat court last week that remanded him to nine days' police custody. The police remand expires on Friday. Arora had also moved a bail application, which will be heard the same day.

No further arrests have been made as the police are still searching for his family members including his two brothers, their wives and a business partner, who have been named in the complaint.

Wala said the police have evidence to prove that the woman was being forced to have group sex and even had a miscarriage due to the ordeal.