Bhopal | Jagran News Desk: In what could be a shocking news amid the nationwide lockdown, a 53-year-old visually impaired woman was allegedly raped by an unidentified person in Madhya Pradesh’s Bhopal district on Friday.
According to Bhopal police, the woman is a banker and she was alone at her home as her husband remained stranded in Rajasthan’s Sirohi district due to the coronavirus lockdown in the country.
The police officials further said that the woman was asleep in her home, located near a hospital, when an unidentified man entered her room and allegedly raped her.
“A case has been registered under section 376 (rape) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code and hunt is on for the accused,” inspector Chandra Bhan Patel of Shahpura police station said, as quoted by news agency PTI.
Patel added that the victim was sent for medical examination.
Assistant superintendent of police (ASP) Sanjay Sahu said that according to the initial investigation, the culprit used the stairs to get to the second floor and then entered the woman's flat through the open doors of the balcony.
The woman told the police official that she had left the balcony door open to avoid suffocation.
This came as a shocking news amid the coronavirus lockdown in the state. In Madhya Pradesh, the dreadful coronavirus infection has affected 1,310 people and claimed the lives of 69. The total includes 842 from Indore who had tested positive for the infection till Thursday night, the state officials said.
As per the reports received so far, the virus has now expanded its footprint to 25 out of the total 52 districts of the state.
In Bhopal, one more case was reported, which raised the count of COVID-19 patients in the state capital to 197, officials said.
(With inputs from agencies)