ByV Narayan, TNN | Mar 15, 2013,

MUMBAI: A eunuch was picked up by his neighbour and three others who bundled him into a vehicle, took turns to allegedly sodomise him for over three hours, singed him with cigarettes and then doused him in kerosene before throwing him out of the car early on Thursday.

The main accused, Mubarrak, has been arrested and the police suspect that a property dispute could be the motive.

Around 11.30pm on Wednesday, the 20-year-old victim and his two roommates-also eunuchs-left their Ghatkopar chawl and went to Naaz Hotel in Kurla (W) to pick up food. As they were returning, they were accosted by the accused and his three aides who were in a Maruti van. “I asked my roommates to go home. As I got into the car, the four threatened to kill our leaders. Then they took turns to have unnatural sex with me. They also burnt me all over my body with cigarettes. Before throwing me out of the van, they poured kerosene on me,” the victim said in the complaint.

After being thrown out on LBS Marg in Ghatkopar around 2.30am on Thursday, the victim took an auto to Rajawadi Hospital. The Vinoba Bhave Nagar police have detained a Ghatkopar resident for picking a 20-year-old eunuch from Kurla (West) at midnight on Wednesday and then he and his three friends gang-raped him for three hours and burnt him with cigarette all over the body. After committing the offence the accused poured highly inflammable chemical on the victim and throw him out of the moving Maruti Van on LBS Marg in Ghatkopar (West) at 2.30am on Thursday.

Hospital officials called the Park Site police who recorded his statements. The case has been transferred to the VB Nagar police who arrested Mubarrak.

The police suspect that property dispute was behind the offence. The victim stays on the ground floor of a chawl at Amrut Nagar in Ghatkopar (W), while Mubarrak stays on the mezzanine floor. “The victim and Mubarrak had fights over rooms and had also filed a case. We have registered a case of unnatural offences and are awaiting the medical report,” DCP Dhananjay Kulkarni told TOI. The accused have also been booked under sections 34 (common intention), 324 (causing hurt using dangerous weapon or means) and 506 (II) (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.

On Wednesday night, the victim and his two roommates (all eunuchs) had gone to Naaz Hotel in Kurla (west) and was returning back home at 11.30am with food parcel when she was stopped by Mubarrak and his three friends whom the victim claimed were in a Maruti van. “I asked my two roommates to go to home after Mubarrak asked me to sit in the van. For three hours they threatened of killing our leader and repeatedly had unnatural sex with me. They also used cigarette to burn all over my body. Before throwing me out of the moving van they poured kerosene on me,” the victim mentioned in the complaint.