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Alleged culprits punish victim for filing complaint

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Tribal woman's hand chopped off

BHOPAL: The hand of a 35-year-old tribal woman were chopped off allegedly by those against whom she had lodged a complaint of rape five days ago, at Nimri village in Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh.

The injured tribal woman, Kamlabai, is now under treatment at the government-run Hamidia Hospital here and the five accused, who were arrested and produced before the Raisen Chief Judicial Magistrate on Monday, have been sent to jail. The victim has filed a police complaint stating that her right hand was chopped off and her house set on fire by the alleged rapist as she had refused to withdraw a rape complaint against them. After being given a compensation of Rs. 12,000, which includes Rs. 10,000 from the Chief Minister's Fund and Rs. 2,000 from the district administration, an additional compensation of Rs. 15,000 was also sanctioned on Tuesday.

A case under Sections 147, 148, 336, and 436 of the IPC and Section 323 of the SC/ST Atrocities Act has been registered against five accused — Manmod Mehra, Devi Singh Raghuwanshi, Prem Narayan Raghuwanshi, Dinesh Raghuvanshi and Ramsevak Raghuwanshi.

When contacted, a senior Police Headquarters source said the rape complaint had been investigated by the Anusucht Janjati Kalyan Deputy Superintendent of Police, Prachi Dwivedi, and was found to be "false and without any basis".

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