Mumbai:
An alleged victim of rape has turned the police's case on its head after stating she had been happily married to the accused when he was booked.
The girl further told the court last week that she still wished to stay with the accused, but feared that her parents would kill her.
Acting on the complaint filed by the girl's parents, Turbhe police on December 12, 2010 arrested Sadam Hussain (21) for allegedly raping the girl. He was granted bail by the Bombay High Court in July this year.
But when the trial started, the 19-year-old victim, during her deposition, told a Sessions court in neighbouring Thane that her parents had earlier given consent to her marriage to the accused, but asked her not to return home.
"After the marriage in November 2010, I stayed with my husband, and after one-and-half month my father came there with the police," she said.
The girl was then brought to Mumbai, and sent to a remand home, as she did not want to stay with her parents.
During the cross-examination by Hussain's lawyer Amit Munde, the victim also said that when the accused was in the jail, she had written to him several times.
"When I was produced before the magistrate (after Hussain's arrest) I had requested that I wanted to live with the accused and not with my parents," she told the court.
"Even today, I wish to live with him as his wife. I fear that I would be killed if I go with him, as my father and brother have threatened me," she told the court.
The trial is yet to conclude.