NEW DELHI: A 28-year-old man, who had befriended a woman in Delhi posing as an Uttar Pradesh police officer, has been arrested for allegedly raping her in a hotel in central Delhi’s Paharganj in September.
Police have found that Sandeep Kumar was also in touch with some other women. A fake cop’s nameplate was seized from his rented house in Meerut. Kumar got married in 2009 and has a son, but he later married again, police said.
According to police, the woman said she was raped on September 6 by a UP cop whom she knew for some time. DCP (central) Sanjay Bhatia said the identity proof used by the accused to book the hotel was fake. Kumar’s photographs were shown at bars he used to frequent and he was arrested from one of them.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)