Kanpur: A man, who had allegedly been raping his neighbour, a 24-year-old woman, over the last four years after promising to marry her, has been booked on Tuesday.
According to police, the woman alleged that she had met Ashish Agrahari of New Azad Nagar in Bidhnoo about ten years ago and the two got into a relationship. She told the police that Ashish had promised to marry her after she attained adulthood about a year later, and established physical relations with her. According to the police, Ashish had taken the woman to different places in the city over the last nine years and allegedly raped her.
On Sunday, the woman, along with her parents and other family members, when went to Ashish at his New Azad Nagar house in Bidhnoo, he assaulted them and threatened them with dire consequences, the police said. The woman then filed a complaint against him on Tuesday evening. “The man had told the woman’s parents that he would marry their daughter when she attained adulthood. But, he backtracked from his promise and instead assaulted the woman and her parents on Sunday.
Finding that she has been cheated, she approached the police,” said SHO Bidhnoo Anurag Singh. The man has been booked under section 376 and 506 of the IPC at the Bidhnoo police station. Hunt is on to arrest the accused, he added