The Tamil Nadu police have booked Christian priest Arumanai Stephen who is the secretary of Arumanai Christian Association (ACA) for allegedly gang-raping a married woman and also making a recording of this barbaric act.
When the alleged gang rape took place, seven other men joined Pastor Arumanai Stephen. At present, Pastor Stephen is already arrested for organising an event in the Kanyakumari district in which controversial Catholic priest George Ponnaiah made a hate speech against Hindus and abused Hindu deities.
However, Pastor Stephen is now in even more trouble after a 36-year-old woman from Veeyannoor of Thiruvattar district in Tamil Nadu registered a complaint and accused him of not only gang-raping her but also recording the act.
The victim has accused Arumana Stephen and seven others of spiking her drink and when she lost all consciousness, they gang-raped her, and the pastor and his friends then filmed the act and the rape according to the victim took place inside a farmhouse.
However, what is disturbing is that the victim had filed a complaint in April with the police, but no action was taken due to pastor Stephen’s close relationship with the ruling DMK.
The police have now booked Stephen, DMK functionary John Bright, Henslin, Callister Jebaraj, and other accused under IPC sections for unlawful confinement, stealing, sexual abuse, issuing death threats, etc. However, one accused Jefferson ended his life fearing police action.
The police only sprung into action after Stephen was arrested in the hate speech case, along with Catholic priest George Ponnaiah, and that led to the victim file another online complaint against Stephen seeking justice.
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