NEW DELHI:
Spurned by the
rejection of his
marriage proposal, a 24-year-old
garment store owner allegedly started
blackmailing a woman by uploading
explicit photos of her on
Facebook. He also sent a copy of the photographs to the woman’s would be in-laws.
After the woman lodged a complaint, the accused was arrested from southeast Delhi’s Amar Colony on Thursday. DCP (southeast) Chinmoy Biswal said that a case was registered under IPC sections of rape (376), POCSO Act and Section 67 and 67B of the IT Act.
Initial probe revealed that the woman was allegedly sexually assaulted by the accused when she was 17 years old. She told cops that in 2016, the accused gave her some intoxicant and allegedly raped her. He also captured explicit photographs of the woman when she was unconscious and started using them to blackmail her.
The survivor was allegedly raped by the accused till April 2016. In July 2018, the woman’s family fixed her marriage and she got engaged. The accused then started threatening her to call off the marriage, and instead marry him.
When she refused, the accused created a fake Facebook account of her and uploaded the images on it. He then sent the photos to the woman’s in-laws, which created an uproar and her marriage was called off.
The woman’s family finally contacted the police. The girl showed the text messages from the accused, along with the explicit images that he had circulated on the social media.
Cops raided the accused’s hideout and arrested him. He confessed to sexually assaulting the woman, when she was a minor, and blackmailing her.
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