Pune: Man booked on charge of raping teenager for 2 years

PUNE: The police on Thursday registered a case against a youth on the charge of raping a 19-year-old woman over the past two years.
The woman, in her complaint, accused the man of first raping her at her house in 2019.
He had secretly recorded their video and then repeatedly raped her by threatening to make it public, she said.
“The woman registered a police complaint when she found out that the suspect had posted a screenshot of the video on a social media platform,” said an officer from the Chatushrungi police station.
The officer said, “The woman stated in her complaint that the man had been stalking her since she was 15 years old. He even had forced her to come along with him and demanded sexual favours from her.”
He said in 2019, when the complainant was alone at her home, the suspect forcibly entered the apartment and raped her. “He had secretly recorded the act. He later repeatedly raped her by threatening to show the video to her mother and make the clip public,” the officer said.
According to the woman, the suspect also had threatened her friend and posted the screenshot on the social media, the officer added.
“We have booked the suspect under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code and POCSO Act,” the officer said.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)