Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, Apr 18: In a complaint filed in Indiranagar police station here, daughter of a retired IAS officer has alleged that her husband's brother, Dr Harsh Basappa had raped her when she was eight months pregnant. She also says that she was threatened of being shot dead if she revealed this incident to others.

The lady, who is Sikh by birth, had loved and married a Hindu youth settled in Mysuru. 'I faced harassment from parents-in-law, brother-in-law and sister-in-law from the first day onward. My father-in-law, who owns a well-known hospital at Mysuru, initially used to bring pressure on me to bring additional dowry of Rs 15 crore,' she says.

She explains that in course of time, she was pressurized to sell a house in Bengaluru belonging to her and bring Rs 45 crore. When she did not budge, she was driven out of the house once overnight, she claims, adding that she had not revealed about this incident to her husband.

'I was taking rest inside my room on November 11, 2014, when I was eight months pregnant. My brother-in-law, who suddenly entered the room, raped me. When I shouted for help, my husband came there and saved me. When my husband tried to file complaint against his elder brother, my in-laws confined him inside a room. They also tried to change his mind by insisting that the respectability of both the families will go down the drain if the incident comes out in the open,' she said.

She said that after the child was born, she shifted to Bengaluru with her husband. She has requested the police to investigate the case and ensure that her parents-in-law and brother-in-law are punished for their inhuman acts.

City police commissioner, M N Reddy, said that the department had received the above complaint on April 14. He said that the complaint stands transferred to Mysuru as the incidents stated in the complaint had taken place there.