A young woman looking for a job was allegedly raped by two Ghanaians at a guest house in Picnic Garden where she went after being told that she would be offered a job.
The woman mentioned in her complaint that a woman from New Town who she had approached for financial help took her to the guest house.
The two Ghanaians, who were hired by small clubs to play football, and the woman from New Town have been arrested by New Town police.
A senior officer of the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate said the complainant, in her late 20s, was separated from her husband and was living alone at a rented flat in New Town’s Gouranganagar.
Being out of a job, she had approached neighbour Lisa Collins for some financial help, who promised to offer her some work.
On May 16, Collins allegedly asked the complainant to accompany her to a place where she said the complainant would be offered a job.
“They reached a guest house in Picnic Garden, where the two Ghanaians were staying. The woman mentioned in the complaint that she was forced to spend the night with the two, who raped her multiple times. She was only allowed to leave the next morning,” said an officer of the Bidhannagar commissionerate.
Battered and bruised, the woman stayed at her rented accommodation for two days before she gathered courage and strength to turn up at New Town police station and lodge a complaint against Collins and the two men on Friday.
Acting on her complaint, the New Town police first arrested Collins and then took her to the Picnic Garden guest house, from where the two youths were arrested.
The accused duo — Christopher Nars, 28, and Moses Zutah, 24 — had come to India from Ghana on student visas and were hired as footballers by various clubs in the state.
All three accused have been booked under Indian Penal Code sections 376 D (gang rape), 120B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention). If convicted, they can be sentenced to life imprisonment.
The three were produced in a Barasat court on Sunday and remanded in police custody.
