Hyderabad: A 60-year-old Bahrain national was arrested on Monday for raping a 25-year-old woman from the city and also branding her with cigarettes when she tried to resist. The police also arrested a salesman who sheltered the Bahraini, while a couple who are charged with trafficking in women are still at large.
According to the police, on October 21, Ebrahim Shukralla Mohamed Bairam, 60, a retired nurse from Bahrain came to the city and checked-in at a hotel in Nampally. Ebrahim contacted Saber, a resident of Nabeel Colony to arrange a woman for marriage.
About a week ago, he moved to Barkas and took shelter in the house of Salam Bin Sayed Bafanna, who works as a salesman. Saber and his wife Sameena, who were acquainted with the family of the 25-year-old victim and her elder sister Nafisa (name changed), contacted them and asked them to visit his house, as he had a client who wanted to buy their house.
The police said that on February 25, Nafisa and her sister went to Saber's house where he introduced them to Ebrahim, who put forth a proposal to marry one of the siblings, but they rejected his proposal. The same day, Saber’s wife Sameena called Nafisa’s younger sister and asked her to visit. She then took her to Ebrahim.
When her sister had not returned even late at night, a worried Nafisa contacted Saber, but he denied knowing the whereabouts of the victim.
“On Sunday, Nafisa heard that her sister was illegally confined in a house in Barkas. When she went there, Ebrahim was present. Learning that her sister was illegally confined by Ebrahim, who had raped her multiple times, and also branded her on the foot with a cigarette when she resisted him, Nafisa lodged a complaint on Sunday night,” the police said.
