PUNE: The Vishrantwadi police on Thursday launched a search for a motorcyclist after a call centre employee (20) lodged an FIR accusing him of kidnapping and raping her at an isolated place in Kharadi in the wee hours of Thursday.
“The survivor and the suspect are not known to each other,” sub-inspector Shubhangi Magdum from the Vishrantwadi police said, citing the survivor’s narration in the FIR.
Deputy commissioner of police (Zone IV) Pankaj Deshmukh told TOI, “We have established the identity of the suspect and a police team is after him to see that he is arrested soon.”
The woman has been working with a call centre at an IT park in Kharadi for the past two months on 5.30pm to 3am shift. She used a scooter for travelling from her home at Dhanori to her office.
The woman said in her FIR she started for home from her call centre on her scooter around 3am on Thursday. She soon realised a man was following her. Around 3.10am, she called one of her friends expressing fear and kept on riding the scooter till the man caught up with her near Good Luck Millennium society at Tingrenagar, she said.
The woman stated that she fell off her scooter after the man caught its handle and gave a jerk. He then allegedly beat her up, forced her to sit on his bike and rode at high speed towards the Ahmednagar highway. He threatened her in Hindi against jumping off the bike, the woman said, adding that her cries for help went in vain. The man then took her to an isolated spot, threatened her and sexually assaulted her, the FIR stated.
Later, he withdrew cash from an ATM kiosk at Gunjan Chowkand hired an autorickshaw for the woman, the FIR stated. While travelling in the rickshaw, she called her friend near a college. After a futile search for the man, they approached the Vishrantwadi police, the FIR stated.
Magdum said, “We have referred the rape survivor to a government hospital for medical examination.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)