Kanpur HORROR! NEET aspirant, 17, held hostage, raped by coaching center teachers for over 6 months, rescued after…

A NEET aspirant was held hostage for over 6 months and repeatedly raped by her teachers in Kanpur. She was 17 at the time when the ordeal took place.

Kanpur Rape: A shocking case of sexual assault has come to the fore in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, where a 17-year-old NEET aspirant was allegedly held hostage at a prominent coaching institute for over six months and raped by two of her teachers on multiple occasions. According to the police, the minor student’s harrowing ordeal began in December 2022, when she was living in a hostel in Kanpur city.

In her complaint, the victim told the police that she had moved to Kanpur from her native Fatehpur in 2022 to prepare for the NEET medical entrance exam.

Narrating the nightmarish ordeal, young woman revealed that in December 2022, one of the accused, Sahil Siddiqui invited her to his friend’s flat in Kalyanpur’s Makdi-Khera area for a New Year’s party, telling her that other students would also be there. However, upon arriving at the flat, she found only Siddiqui, who allegedly drugged her by lacing her soft drink with sedatives, raped her and filmed the act.

She was 17 at the time.

Blackmailed, held hostage, raped

The victim claimed that Siddiqui blackmailed her by threatening to share the video on the internet and held her hostage in his flat for over six months, during which he repeatedly raped her. A few months after this, another teacher, Vikas Porwal, also raped her.

The duo threatened to share the video of her rape online if she told anyone about what they had done to her, she said, adding that she could not muster the courage to seek police help as she was scared that it might land her family in danger.

However, six months later, the girl’s mother arrived in Kanpur and took her along, and despite being hesitant to approach the police at first, she finally sought the cops’ help after she came across a video showing Siddiqui sexually harassing another  student.

Accused arrested

A senior police official said that both accused teachers — Sahil Siddiqui, who taught biology, and Vikas Porwal, a chemistry teacher– have been arrested and charged with offences of rape, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation and under provisions of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (POCSO) Act.

A case was registered against the accused under Indian Penal Code sections 328 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence), 376(2)(n) (commits rape repeatedly on the same woman), 344 (wrongful confinement for 10 or more days) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and the POCSO Act, said Assistant Commissioner of Police (Kalyanpur) Abhishek Pandey.

(With PTI inputs)