Hyderabad: 25-year-old woman alleges sexual harassment by 139 people, sent for medical examination

An FIR has been registered based on a complaint filed by a 25-year-old woman who claimed that as many as 139 people over the past several years has sexually assaulted her.

The woman hails from Hyderabad.

The woman also alleged that apart from these people, family members of her former husband also sexually assaulted her. The alleged victim was divorced within a year of her marriage in 2010.

"Following the complaint, we have registered a case and are further investigating," a police official attached to Punjagutta police station said.

A case under relevant IPC sections and under relevant provisions of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was registered. The FIR runs into 42 pages.

The woman has been sent for medical examination.

In the complaint. the woman stated that her sexual harassment began three months after her marriage in June 2009 at the hands of her in-laws. The harassment continued for nine months.

The woman divorced her husband in December 2010 but still, the matter didn't end there. She claimed that she was 'threatened, sexually abused and exploited by more people over the past several years' afterward when she went for further studies.

The police said that due to fear and panic and threats from the accused, the woman said that there was a delay from her side in filing the police complaint.