Woman trafficked, raped; husband among seven arrested

(PTI) PALANPUR (Gujarat), May 26: A man and six others were arrested in Gujarat’s Banaskantha district for allegedly trafficking his wife for Rs 50,000, after which she was reportedly raped and sexually assaulted. The heinous crime came to light during an investigation into a missing person complaint filed by the husband earlier this month. The accused had lodged a complaint on May 11 claiming that his wife had gone missing from Palanpur city. Within two days of the complaint, the husband himself went missing, following which his father filed another missing person complaint. This sequence of events raised suspicion. Cops subsequently traced the husband and later located his wife, whose formal statement exposed the alleged crime. It was revealed that the husband had allegedly sold his wife to his friends for Rs 50,000.