Man rapes 90-year-old in Bharatpur, arrested

Jaipur: A 90-year-old visually impaired woman was raped by a 25-year-old man on Friday in Bharatpur. The woman was alone at her house when the accused sexually assaulted her. He was arrested on Saturday and the survivor is undergoing treatment at a hospital.

The accused was identified as Dalbir Gujjar. Deepak Ojha, SHO, Bayana police station told TOI, “The elderly woman was alone at home on Friday afternoon, when the accused barged into her house in an intoxicated state.

On finding her alone, he raped her. The rape survivor, whose son works in another town, told her daughter-in-law about the incident when she returned from the fields in the evening. The daughter-in-law then informed a few other locals, who told us.”

Ojha added, “The locals suspected the accused and we arrested him on Saturday. During interrogation, he confessed to the crime. There seems to be no motive, but just psychopathic tendency. He found the woman alone and took advantage of it without any qualms. The accused was also not known to the rape survivor. As of now, we have not found any past criminal record of the accused and it appears that he was unemployed.”

The medical examination of the survivor was done. The SHO said, “She has sustained injuries on her private parts, due to which there was excessive bleeding. She is currently undergoing treatment and is stable. The elderly woman, who is a widow, had completely lost her vision due to old age and was suffering from other age-related ailments because of which she was already in a frail condition when the accused attacked her.”