Sexual harassment of women college students, filming of acts, drugs victims, blackmail and religious conversion – Chilling details from Bhopal 1992 Striking similarities for Ajmer sex scandal, which affected over 100 young schoolgirls and uprooted families.
What is the case of Bhopal sexual harassment?
The accused person was part of a gang led by a person, identified as Farhan Khan, who was systematically hunted on college girls. The gang’s modus operandi came to light when two sisters chased B Tech at a Bhopal College, which contacted the police with accounts. While the elder sister was raped in a house in Jahangirabad in 2022. The younger sister was later sexually harassed under dangers. Both were later pressurized for marriage and religious conversion, with their resistance with more hazards of defamation.
In addition, the younger sister was introduced by Farhan to her colleague Adil Khan, who molested and eventually raped her. The video of the incident was further used for blackmail and sexual assault, often done while the girl was forcefully drunk. On seizing Farhan’s phone, the police found pornographic videos, many of the two sisters.
The video found on Farhan’s phone revealed a fierce details, including burning a victim with cigarettes. Police said Farhan rescued the video in specific folders on his phone, and believes he had brainwashed several victims to wear religious clothes and inspect fasting. Some victims alleged that the vehicles were raped inside the vehicles while arms threatened, while others claimed that drugs were being drugs to break the resistance.
Another main accused Sahil Khan, native of Panna in Madhya Pradesh, started presenting dance classes in Bhopal. The first year college dropouts allegedly targeted poor girls, who had gone to the city for education from villages. After taking them to a lounge and pub, he would take him to a rented room, where his first hunting was a Betul’s girl. After spikeing his cold drink with drugs, he sexually assaulted her and secretly filmed the Act. The video was then used by Sahil to repeatedly sexually abuse, including Farhan.
No video of the alleged attack by Sahil was found on his phone, which has been sent for forensic analysis.
Another accused is Ali Khan, who raped a college student and recorded an act, a mechanic Saad, who provided the girls’ movement for Rs 500-700 per trip, and for Abrar and Nabil.
Earlier this week, the police registered three FIRs related to the case, in which the accused was charged under the sections of rape, kidnapping, freedom of freedom, and classes related to the POCSO Act. During interrogation, Farhan did not show any remorse for his actions. According to police sources, the group of accused in Bhopal is suspected of targeting women in Indore as well.
While Farhan, Sahil and Saad are arrested, Ali, Abrar and Nabil are on run.
What happened in Ajmer in 1992?
In the 1992 Ajmer case, six people were sentenced to life imprisonment by a POCSO court after 32 years for gangrape and blackmailing over 100 school girls. First, nine other people were imprisoned for life in the same case and four were acquitted by the High Court. Accused including Farooq and Nafis’ influential Chishti pair associated with Ajmer Sharif Dargah and his colleagues. A local photo lab printed and transmitted nude pictures of the victims.
When the matter came to light, religious tension erupted in Ajmer, causing a city-wide shutdown. For more than 30 years, frequent summons for the court, often reached their doorstep with policemen, became a painful reminder for the victims. In 2023, Ajmer 92 was made on a Hindi film case.