'Indian-origin Maoist sect leader forced woman into sex acts'
November 17, 2015 19:29
A 75-year-old Indian-origin Maoist revolutionary leader in the UK, charged with modern day slavery, sexual assault and imprisonment of his own daughter, forced a woman to commit humiliating sex acts on him, a court here has been told.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the court that over several years after she had joined the commune in 1976 Aravindan Balakrishnan hit her and told her he could easily kill her using a pressure point on her throat.
She said that by 1980, when he allegedly forced her into sex acts, she had lost her ability to resist. The jury heard that other women in the commune were also forced to have sex with him, and were given one hour slots in which to see him, The Guardian reported.
Balakrishnan, a charismatic and energetic speaker, was the organiser of a communist group in the 1970s based in Brixton, known as the Workers Institute.
The woman said she had been frightened of Balakrishnan, and that over several years of being harangued and beaten for saying or doing things that he said indicated bourgeois tendencies or the infiltration of "fascist agents" into her thinking, he had achieved "a sense of absolute power and control" over her body and mind.
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