A 36-year-old woman thought she had lived her worst nightmare after she was gang-raped by three men in her own home. She thought the police would help her. She was wrong on both counts. The very officer who was put in charge of her case put her through hell all over again. For three days and three nights, she was held against her will at the police station, where she was allegedly starved, abused and made to sleep on the cold floor. All the while, the investigating officer — API Salunkhe from Palghar police station — implied that the rape was her fault, and refused to register a case. It was after an NGO intervened that he filed an FIR, but only against one accused — he refused to register it as a case of gang rape.

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