Weightlifter alleges rape, blackmail by counterpart

KANPUR: A weightlifter has accused her counterpart of raping and blackmailing her after making her objectionable video. On SSP’s instructions, Pheelkhana police filed an FIR on Friday and started a probe. “We have booked the accused, a resident of Muzaffarnagar, under IPC sections of rape, criminal conspiracy, threatening and cheating,” Inspector Pheelkhana Santosh Awasthi informed TOI on Saturday.
The woman, who’s in early twenties, is a resident of a locality under the limits of Pheelkhana police station of the city. She complained that the accused had raped her in January this year at a hotel in the city. He also made a video and started blackmailing her. Finally, she shared the incident with her family members who took her to the police.
In her complaint, the woman who claims herself to be a national-level weightlifter, alleged that the accused had befriended her at an event in Pune in 2018 and also promised to marry her soon.