New Delhi: He allegedly attacked her with knives, flung an earthen pot at her head and burnt her private parts. “He kept saying, ‘I’ll beat you so much that you won’t be able to walk, you’ll never become a mother’,” the 19-year-old woman from Tripura told Gurugram Police. Her written complaint led to the arrest last week of her live-in partner Shivam.
The matter came to light on 18 February when the woman’s mother, back in Tripura, received a distress call. On the other end, her crying daughter pleaded with her in Bangla: “Save me! He is going to kill me!”
The mother alerted the police who rescued the woman, said Gurugram Police Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Sandeep Kumar, adding that the woman is under treatment and her condition is now stable.
Based on her complaint, police registered an FIR under BNS sections 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 118(1) (voluntarily causing hurt using dangerous weapons or means), 118(2) (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt), 127(2) (wrongful confinement), 69 (sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means), and 351(2) (criminal intimidation).
“The accused was taken into police custody, and after police remand, he was produced in court and sent to jail on court orders,” ASI Kumar said. He also said that during interrogation Shivam admitted to the assault.
The woman’s lawyer Reena Rai, however, said, “Her father confirmed that the medical examination confirms rape. But the sections filed at the Badshahpur police station are only for minor injuries. This is also an attempt to murder, and rape charges have not been filed. Her face was completely swollen from the beating, and her hair was completely cut off.”
In response to this, ASI Kumar said that “whatever other sections arise from the doctors’ opinions, the police will also apply them to this case”.
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Met through dating app
The complainant in this case, a second-year BSc student, had been living in a paid guest accommodation in Gurugram’s Sector 69 since last August.
She first came in contact with the accused, Shivam, through a dating app on 6 September, 2025. The two met in person in the last week of September at his house in Delhi’s Narela where, according to police sources, the accused promised to marry the complainant.
“The duo became close, and they lived in Sector 33 in a society in Gurugram. Soon, Shivam began suspecting the survivor of cheating,” said a police officer familiar with the investigation. According to the FIR, the accused began assaulting the woman after they moved in together in a rented accommodation in Gurugram’s Dhunela.
On 13 February this year, they relocated to a PG accommodation in Sector 69 which Shivam rented in his name.
“Three days later, he again attacked me with a steel bottle. He hit me on the bed, and later hit me on the head with an earthen pot. He poured sanitiser on my private parts. He kept saying, ‘I’ll beat you so much that you won’t be able to walk, you’ll never become a mother,” the woman told the police.
She added in her written complaint that he continuously assaulted her from 16 to 18 February and even tried ‘scratching her legs with knives’.
“Shivam sexually assaulted, kicked and punched her. He also burnt her private parts by pouring sanitiser, and even recorded obscene videos of her,” a police source told ThePrint.
‘Maa, he will kill me’
Recalling the distress call she received on 18 February, the woman’s mother told ThePrint that her daughter sounded “scared” when she called her using Shivam’s cell phone.
“I couldn’t believe what she was telling me. She spoke to me in Bangla about her condition. She said, ‘Maa, I’ll die, there is a man named Shivam, and he will kill me…he has been hitting me for 24 hours straight for the last three days, he has even burnt me, he will definitely kill me…’.”
The woman also told her mother that she was being denied food.
“He tied my daughter’s hands and legs with charging cables, and then attacked her with a knife,” said the mother. Adding, “I don’t even know what to demand right now. My daughter is battling for her life. What is there for me to demand, anymore?”
(Edited by Amrtansh Arora)
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