PANJIM: The wife of the Mapusa man who is in jail for allegedly raping her sister and mother, in her revised statement before witnesses said that her husband told her that he had sexually assaulted his sister in law (her sister) under the influence of liquor.This critical part of the wife’s revised statement to the police, was held back in the selective information given to certain sections of the media. Herald has spoken to the witness who signed on the wife’s revised statement and has access to the entire contents.
She has also said in her revised statement, that she had not seen her husband raping her mother (his mother in law) but has seen him “slapping” her. Importantly, her mother, who is the principal complainant in the case has not altered or modified her statement that she was brutally raped by the accused, her son in law.
Importantly, this statement, according, to one of the witnesses who signed it, as well as the wife’s own admission, was directly initiated by the Mapusa police. The statement, aimed to dilute at least a part of the charges (of the main sexually assaulting his daughter) was recorded after the Mapusa police sent the wife in their own jeep to the women’s police station. The police also gave the wife Rs 100 for food.
For the NGO that supervised and signed on the witness statement, the hurried, police inspired selective leak to the media, without the key fact of the accused admitting to sexually assaulting his sister-in-law, is shocking. The NGO Bailancho Saad, in a mail to Herald has also confirmed that the wife of the alleged rapist, has stated that her husband, now in Sada jail had pleaded with her to do something to get him out, and she in a state of complete penury and hopelessness, decided to do “something.” The wife of the accused has also state this in her revised statement to the police.
The wife also told Sabina Martins of Bailancho Saad, the “witness”, that she knew that he would beat her once he got out, but she needed food for her and the family and so was forced to bear up with him.
“I wish to state that the wife who is very vulnerable on several counts had visited the Sada jail where her husband was lodged. He told her that he was beaten by the police and requested her to release him. He told her to meet one Kalangutkar in Mapusa police station who was earlier handling her complaints of domestic violence,” says Martins.
“Accordingly she met Kalangutkar at Mapusa police station. Then at the direction of the PI she was brought to the women’s police station to record her changed statement. These facts are recorded in the changed statement.”
“After the recording of the changed statement, she told me that she has no food and they are struggling to make ends meet and need help. The children are asking about their father and she is under tremendous stress.”
