Falsely implicated for rape, he's still in jail

PUNE: "Do only girls have reputation and dignity? Don't boys have them too," asks Pushpa Muralidhar Bhise (48), mother of Sagar (19), who was falsely implicated by a minor for raping her. Sagar was arrested on March 17 after the minor girl from Wadgaonsheri alleged that he and three of his friends raped her in a house in Dehu Road. The police had also detained another minor following communal pressure as the girl belonged to a minority community. The girl confessed later that she had filed a false complaint against Sagar and his friends just to hide the fact that she had gone out with her boyfriend. Her boyfriend has now been arrested on charges of abduction and raping a minor. Since that day Sagar's mother has been spending sleepless nights as her son is languishing in jail despite being innocent. To her relief, Sagar was granted bail by a sessions court on Friday, but getting him out will take some more time. Police inspector (crime) Sunil Deshmukh of the Yerawada police station said, "Sagar's lawyer has sought bail for him because the process of releasing him is bound to take time. The release process, under sections of the code of criminal procedure (CrPC), will be filed after the investigations are over," he said.