Army Major Booked on Charge of Raping Maidservant

New Delhi: An Army Major has been booked on the charge of raping his domestic help in the Delhi Cantonment area, police said on Sunday. Deputy Commissioner of Police Devender Arya said that the case was registered on Friday under the Indian Penal Code after Major Gaurav’s housemaid, a widow hailing from Gunnaur in Uttar Pradesh, got recorded her statement with police. She also alleged that the officer and his brother-in-law were involved in the killing of her husband. She accused the Major of threatening to kill her and her son as well. “I am poor and uneducated. That is why nobody is helping me,” she said in the First Information Report (FIR). (IANS)