Jammu food corp GM arrested in Jaipur over rape complaint

JAIPUR: A 45-year-old general manager of Food Corporation of India (FCI) was arrested from the city late on Tuesday for allegedly raping and a junior woman colleague in May while he was posted in Jaipur as FCI’s assistant general manager. The accused Manmeet Singh Bhullar, who is currently posted in Jammu and Kashmir, also allegedly made a video of the act to blackmail her.

Earlier this year on May 23, Bhullar asked the rape survivor to come to a hotel in Lal Kothi on the pretext of discussing official work.

“He spiked her tea and raped her in the hotel room. Bhullar also recorded the video of the act to blackmail her,” said additional DCP (ADCP) Mool Singh Rana.

He raped her again on May 29 when the complainant had gone to New Delhi for official work. Bhullar too came to the national capital and called her to his hotel room where he raped her again, the police said.

On June 1, the complainant shared her ordeal with her husband and family and registered an FIR at the Bajaj Nagar police station. But the police did not act on the complaint and claimed the investigation as “inconclusive”. The investigation was then handed over to ADCP Mool Singh Rana posted at the Commissionerate.

Rana told TOI that when the accused learnt that an FIR has been filed against him at Bajaj Nagar police station, he quickly got himself transferred from Jaipur to Jammu and Kashmir in June.


Police seize video clip for investigation

Jaipur: A native of Bathinda in Punjab, Bhullar lived in Jaipur from 2016 to 2018. Rana said that CCTV footage of the hotel and the video clipping has been seized by the police for investigation. “We had sent him a summons to appear before the police for investigation. He landed in Jaipur on Tuesday where we interrogated him.

Later, he was put under arrest,” Rana told TOI. Police said that the initial investigation indicates that the accused had first called the complainant to discuss a matter pertaining to the recruitment of security guards. “He called her to the hotel with files and then spiked her tea. He kept threatening to make the video of the act viral,” the official said.

ADCP Mool Singh Rana said that all evidence have been recovered which points to Bhullar’s involvement.