Mumbai: A 27-year-old woman jumped off the fifth floor of a building in South Mumbai in the wee hours of Friday to escape from the captivity of two alleged rapists.
While trying to escape, she jumped off the balcony of the fifth floor flat in a bid to land on the terrace of the adjoining three-story building. On landing, she sustained injuries on the head, after which she lost consciousness. The woman attempted to escape while the accused men were asleep. Alerted by the noise, some residents of the building informed the police, who rushed to the spot and nabbed the accused in the flat. The accused have been identified as Santosh Kanojiya (26) and Farooq Khan (31). Both Kanojiya and the rape survivor are from Akbarpur in Uttar Pradesh. The police said one of the accused had lured the woman from Uttar Pradesh to Mumbai on the pretext of getting her employment. However, she was kept in captivity for over a week and raped several times.
