- Home
- Live Blog
- Breaking News
- Top Headlines
- Cities
- NE News
- Sentinel Media
- Sports
- Education
- Jobs
SRINAGAR: A Kashmiri business tycoon Sahil Zaroo, who is now in jail for taping a young professional from North East India has a bail plea hearing today on Thursday.
It was reported that after the rape incident happened on August 16 after which he fled to Srinagar however after an FIR was filed by the survivor he was arrested within 24 hours by Delhi Police.
In a horrific incident, the victim was drugged at a party in Delhi. After the girl was unconscious she became a victim of the crime.
According to the FIR, the survivor, who is working as a cabin crew in an airline was later offered a job at Zaroo's private jet and he also asked her to take up accommodation at Zaroo's private residence.
Zaroo was persistent that the girl takes up his job offer in spite of refusing many times.
Later she was drugged and raped after she fell unconscious. An FIR against Sahil Zaroo vide FIR No. 252/21 under sections 376 and 328 IPC was registered by the victim on August 18.
The victim is under the protection of the Special Unit For Northeast Region (SPUNER) of the Delhi Police.
Zaroo also allegedly tried to settle the case with the victim and offered her money.
Meanwhile, Zaroo's wife Saima Majid has also filed a counter-complaint against the victim accusing the survivor of blackmailing, extortion and honey trapping.
Crime against women from the Northeast has become a routine, in May, a viral video showed a girl, believed to be from the Northeast, being sexually abused by four men and a woman. One video shows the five people brutally torturing, stripping, and sexually abusing the girl.
The offenders slapped, abused, stepped on the face of the victim and inserted a glass bottle into her private parts.
Perpetrators were later arrested by the police after an over-pouring of disgust and condemnation by people in social media.
Also watch: