My husband needs to pay for his crimes

June 18, 2010

The woman who alleged that her spouse forced her to have group sex with friends demands justice for six years of pain and humiliation


When she picked up the matrimonial advertisement placed by Delhi-based businessman Kuldeepak Arora in the summer of 2004, Rajashree did not have the slightest inkling of the horrors that awaited her.

Six years later, having sent Arora to jail for abusing her, forcing her to have group sex with his friends, forcing her to have unnatural sex and after enduring other forms of physical and emotional torture, Rajashree is taking stock of all that she went through and has decided to fight till the very end for justice.


"I want people, who made my life miserable, behind bars. I need justice for the six years of pain and humiliation I went through," said Rajashree, who registered an FIR against her husband in her hometown of Surat, Gujarat. Surat police arrested Arora from Delhi airport on April 5.

"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 the 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.

Rajashree wrote to her sister about her travails but she asked her to keep patience. Meanwhile, frustrated with his dowry demands not being met by Rajashree's family, Arora unleashed hell on Rajashree.

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

When it crossed the limits of her endurance, Rajashree 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 besides having business interests in Mumbai and Hong Kong. When the Surat police nabbed him at IGI airport, 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.

When asked whether the women in Arora household did not sympathise with her for being subjected to such inhuman torture, she said even they helped her husband in 'subjugating' her.
The law finally catches up


Investigation officer Surendra Singh Wala told the Media 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 police have evidence of the orgies that the woman was being forced into, adding she even had a miscarriage due to the ordeal.