Pune: Constable arrested for rape

PUNE: The Mundhwa police on Sunday arrested a constable for allegedly raping a 24-year-old woman on the pretext of marriage since May 27, 2017.

The 33-year-old constable, posted at Chandannagar police station, will remain in police custody remand till April 25.

The suspect is married and has a son. He got friendly with the woman holding a degree in bachelor of computer application as he and her uncle were good friends.

Assistant inspector Manish Patil of the Mundhwa police said, “The suspect fell in love with the woman and started meeting her. He lured her to marry him and made false promises of divorcing his wife at the earliest. On the pretext of marriage, he allegedly raped her and indulged in unnatural offence at various places like Ghorpadi, Lohegaon and Kharadi between May 27, 2007 and April 15, 2019.”

The woman in her FIR said the constable forced her to withdraw cash amounting to Rs 1.85 lakh from her bank account and kept it in his possession. He also took away her school certificate among other documents and refused to return to her. He started avoiding her and refused to marry her. He threatened her with dire consequences.”

Patil said the woman later realised that the cop had made false promises of marriage and took a call to register an FIR against him under sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offence), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 506 (1) (criminial intimidation) and 504 (intentional insult) of the Indian Penal Code. Senior police officers have being given information of his arrest.

Senior inspector Krishna Indalkar, incharge of the Chandannagar police, said,“The constable did not report for duty for the last five days. We have received information of the FIR registered against him and his subsequent arrest.”