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	Woman Alleges Rape by Godman Express Buzz December 14, 2009 http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Woman+alleges+rape+by+godman&artid=0NoHv/bm8jw=&SectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&MainSectionID=lifojHIWDUU=&SEO=&SectionName=rSY|6QYp3kQ= India -- It was a press meet with a difference. Instead of the usual red-carpeted rooms with banners in the backdrop, the venue was a small, nondescript corporation playground in a Nungambakkam bylane. And it was here that 'sexual torture' victim S Hemalatha on Monday narrated her tale of exploitation in the hands of a priest, and police inaction on a complaint filed by her against him. Hemalatha said her ordeal began two years ago, on January 18, when she appeared for an interview before Dr Easwar Srikumar of 'Shakti Vilas Trust' for the post of housekeeper. The saffron-robed priest claimed that he was a member of the Central Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Labour and Employment and was next "only to a judge in rank". Five days later, he asked her to come to his house with two passport size photographs and ration card. After talking to her for a while, he prepared coffee "with his own hands" and insisted that she drink it. "I did not know what happened next. When I woke up, I found my clothes in a state of disarray and realised that I had been raped," Hemalatha said. When she confronted the priest, he told her that he had photographed and videotaped her in her dishevelled condition and threatened to publish them on the Internet if she exposed him. Hemalatha claimed she had been sexually exploited by him for the last two years. Her marriage broke up under the tension. Hemalatha said she finally submitted a petition to City Police Commissioner T Rajendran on November 25 this year, who forwarded it to T Nagar police. Alleging police inaction, she said they urged her to withdraw the complaint against the priest, failing which they would book her in a brothel case.
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