Basirhat: Family members of a deaf-and-mute woman in her late 20s have alleged that a neighbour they identified as Biswajit Ghosh raped her after gagging her and tying her hands and legs on Tuesday night.
The accused is absconding, an officer of Basirhat police station said.
"We have raided his relatives' houses in adjoining areas in search of him but our efforts drew a blank. We are working on some leads and scanning the call records of Biswajit's cellphone," the officer said.
The woman's mother and sister-in-law told the police that they were in the kitchen when they were alerted by the sound of someone groaning.
As they rushed to the room from where the sound came, they spotted Biswajit.
"The two grabbed Biswajit's hands but he pushed them aside and fled. They said the victim was lying gagged, her hands and legs tied," an officer of the police station who is probing the alleged rape said.
The house of the alleged victim stands on a four-cottah plot. The kitchen is in one corner of the courtyard and the living rooms are on the far side of the plot.
"The woman lives with her parents, elder brother and her sister-in-law. According to the complaint, the woman was raped around 9pm," the officer said.
A preliminary investigation revealed that Biswajit, a next-door neighbour of the family of the alleged victim, entered the room after seeing her alone.
"He took advantage of the fact that the kitchen, where he knew the other women of the family would be around that time, was on the other side of the plot," the officer said.
The woman was taken to Basirhat Sub-divisional Hospital for a medical test.
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