BENGALURU: A 27-year-old sub-inspector attached with Chamarajpet police station is in trouble after a 30-year-old woman filed a rape complaint against him at Dharmasthala police station recently. The officer, however, alleged that the woman tried to blackmail him to extort Rs 10 lakh.
The police officer is Vishwanatha Biradar of CAR Police Quarters at Sirsi Circle, Mysuru Road, while the complainant is a businesswoman from south Bengaluru.
The woman, in her complaint, said she had approached Chamarajpet police three months ago to register a laptop-theft case. At that time, the PSI and the woman struck a friendship, became close and reportedly decided to marry. However, things went wrong after the duo reached Dharmasthala in Dakshina Kannada on November 10 to tie the knot.
According to Dharmsthala police, the two stayed in a guest house, where Biradar allegedly sexually assaulted the woman.
“After I filed the theft case, we exchanged phone numbers. Later, he started telling me that he loves me and demanded Rs 12 lakh. He asked me to meet him to discuss something personal, but I declined. Later, he asked me to meet him to share something related to the laptop case and took me to the CID office. He repeatedly kept telling me that he was in love with me. I agreed to marry him on October 8 and we decided to tie the knot in Dharmasthala. We took a room in a guest house, where he sexually assaulted me against my wish. He bit me all over my body. Later, on November 11, he declined to marry me,” the woman alleged in her complaint.
Police registered a case under IPC sections 376 (rape) and 323 (assault) against Biradar.
Meanwhile, Biradar filed a counter-complaint with Dharmasthala police, alleging the woman had threatened to lodge a false complaint of rape against him if he failed to pay her Rs 10 lakh. “After filing the theft case in August, she would unnecessarily call me daily. She asked me to meet her at Basavanagudi on November 8 and demanded that I marry her. I declined saying I was engaged. But a few minutes later, she threatened to kill herself and leave behind a suicide note accusing me of pushing her to take the extreme step. The next day, she took me to Dharmasthala, where she demanded Rs 10 lakh and threatened to file a rape complaint and ruin my life and reputatoin if I did not do so,” Biradar alleged.
Dharmasthala police said the woman had filed similar cases against at least three other persons earlier in various police stations in Bengaluru. Considering Biradar’s complaint and the fact that the previous cases she had registered were also of similar nature, police have taken up a criminal case against her too.
The woman has been booked her under IPC section 389 (putting a person in fear of accusation of offence, in order to commit extortion).