A love affair turned horrifying for a 19-year-old girl from south Mumbai when a WhatsApp friend cum lover started blackmailing her. A 21-year-old boy from Uttar Pradesh was arrested from Uttar Pradesh by Pydhonie police for allegedly threatening, raping and blackmailing the 19-year-old girl.
According to Mid-Day, the accused has been identified as Mohammed Ashraf Khurshid Ahmed Shaikh. Shaikh had befriended the 19-year-old girl from a WhatsApp group in 2016. Back then, the girl was allegedly added to a WhatsApp group called ‘Friends’, which had boys and girls from around the country. Shaikh and the girl became friends from that group, and later he told her that he loved her, and wanted to meet her. The girl also liked him and agreed to meet him. They met in October 2017 near Girgaum Chowpatty.
Shaikh told the girl that he worked in a garage in Pune and proposed her for marriage, which the girl accepted. Later, the same month, they met again at Girgaum Chowpatty, but her uncle saw them both and told the girl’s parents about it. Later, the girl’s mother told Shaikh to come home and meet the family first. But Shaikh didn’t show up. But, late on January 8, Shaikh called the girl to Pune to meet him, and the girl denied. Shaikh then threatened the girl that he would get his friends from Mumbra and throw acid on her. The girl got scared and left for Pune.
The girl later again met Shaikh at Chinchwad station, and he took her to a room claiming it was his aunt’s place and raped her. Later, on January 11, Pimpri police saw the couple and asked where they were from, and the girl told them she was from Mumbai. The police took them to the police station where they found that a missing complaint at Pydhonie police station lodged by the girl’s parents. The girl was sent back to Mumbai.
But later, Shaikh got in touch with her friends and relatives, and threatened them that he had obscene pictures of her. Scared, the girl went to Pydhonie police station and lodged a rape complaint. After the complaint, police started searching Shaikh and they traced him to his hometown in Bijnaur, Uttar Pradesh. A police team went to Uttar Pradesh to arrest him. The accused has now been sent to police custody till May 2.