Booked for ‘raping’ house help, 75-year-old who managed multiple PSUs in Kerala ‘absconding’

The alleged incidental happened astatine his location successful Kerala’s Ernakulam territory connected October 15 erstwhile different members of Sivaprasad’s household were away.

The FIR was registered connected October 17.

According to police, the 23-year-old pistillate joined arsenic a home assistance astatine Sivaprasad’s villa aboriginal this month. According to the ailment of the woman, Sivaprasad allegedly spiked her effect foodstuff and outraged her modesty. She said successful the ailment that she fell unconscious aft drinking the juice.

Police had initially registered a lawsuit connected charges of outraging the modesty of a woman, but aft aesculapian introspection of the survivour, charges for rape were included successful the FIR.

Police sources said a time aft the alleged incident, Sivaprasad had near for Guruvayur temple on with his family. On October 16, the woman, who was unsocial astatine the house, narrated the incidental to her relative, who is moving arsenic a assistance astatine different location successful the area.

Subsequently, the proprietor of the location wherever the comparative worked alerted Benoy Peter, who runs the NGO, Centre for Migration and Inclusive Development.

“The subsister had reached the location aboriginal this week. She was not acquainted with the determination of the house. She sent the outdoor images of the location to her relative. After going done the images, we could place the determination and past we took up the substance with the Maradu police,” Peter said.

Police went to the location and took the pistillate for a aesculapian examination.

Meanwhile, the accused has moved an anticipatory bail plea earlier the court, which volition travel up for proceeding connected Tuesday.