An Uttar Pradesh resident was arrested by the Kerala Police for allegedly raping a woman in Dubai on the pretext of marriage, officials said on Monday.

A senior official said the accused, identified as 29-year-old Nadeem Khan, was arrested on Sunday by the Kerala Police in cooperation with the Uttar Pradesh Police.

Bareilly Police Circle Officer (CO) Ashish Pratap Singh said that Khan, a resident of Paratapur Jeevan Sahay village under the Izzatnagar Police Station area, has a complaint of rape against him filed at the Irikkur Police Station in Kerala.

Officer Singh said a joint team of Bareilly Police and Kerala Police tracked down the accused and arrested him.

According to an official of the Kerala Police, the woman in her complaint accused Nadeem Khan of repeatedly raping her on the pretext of marrying her.

In her complaint, the woman revealed that Nadeem Khan was working as a driver in Dubai while she worked as a conductor and over time the two of them got involved in a relationship.

She claimed that the accused had sex with her on the promise that he will marry her, however, Khan always evaded the matter whenever she brought up the topic of marriage and then suddenly left Dubai.

The woman said after Khan returned to India, she also came back to her home state of Kerala where she lodged a complaint of rape against her boyfriend.

A senior official of the Kerala Police said that three Kerala cops, including Inspector Satyanath KV, came to Izzatnagar Police Station where they sought cooperation from the local police and later a joint team arrested Khan and shifted him to Kerala for trial.

The official said that based on the woman’s complaint, an FIR has been registered against the accused under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and further investigations are underway.

The Prayagraj Police on Monday has discovered blood stains inside the premises of gangster turned politician Atiq Ahmed’s partially demolished Prayagraj office.

Stains of blood were found splashed at the stairs inside the office, also as per the reports some stains of blood were found a white piece of cloth which lied in a couch inside the office.

A knife was also found in the demolished office covered with blood stains.

As per reports, a police investigation in the matter of the found items with blood is underway.

Atiq Ahmed was a dreaded gangster who was shot dead at point blank range on April 15 along with his brother Ashraf Ahmed while they were being taken for a medical check-up inside a medical complex in Prayagraj.

Three assailants posing as media personnel, approached the gangster brothers who were in a police custody and fired several rounds at them which took down the lives of the Ahmed brothers.

Atiq and his brother Ashraf were the prime accused involved in the killing of Umesh Pal, the key witness of former BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case, 2005.

Soon after the incident of Umesh Pal murder, the administration in the Uttar Pradesh swung into its bulldozer action and demolished the residences, offices, and various other buildings that were attached to the gangster’s property.

Atiq’s son Asad ahmed, who was a key shooter in the Umesh Pal shootout case was gunned down in an encounter by the UP Special Task Force (STF) team on April 13, Asad was on a run since Umesh Pal murder and the UP Police along with the STF team were in regular action to nab Asad and his aides involved in the shootout.

The killings of Atiq and his brother Ashraf has questioned the law and order situation of the state.

In a setback for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the coming MCD mayoral elections, one of its councillors joined the Delhi unit of arch rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday.

AAP councillor from Dwarka C ward Sunita joined the BJP in presence of the saffron party’s senior leaders on Monday, two days before the elections for the posts of mayor and deputy mayor of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) are scheduled to be held.

Welcoming Sunita into the right-wing party’s fold, Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva attacked the AAP and claimed that the Arvind Kejriwal-led party treats common volunteers like “bonded labour” while everyone is equal in the BJP.

Sunita became the second AAP councillor to join the BJP in recent months after Pawan Sehrawat from Bawana ward switched sides in February this year.

Former AAP councillor Ram Niwas also joined the BJP along with Sunita.

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Commenting on the development, West Delhi BJP MP Parvesh Verma claimed that many more from the AAP are expected to join the BJP soon as they are feeling “suffocated” in the Delhi Chief Minister’s party.

Thanking the BJP for “accepting her with open arms” Sunita said she had close ties with the BJP, particularly Parvesh Verma. The ex-AAP leader expressed her desire to work hard to strengthen the BJP at grassroot levels.

The AAP and the BJP have been in a tug of war in the national capital’s grassroots-level politics with the former defeating the later in last year’s MCD polls.

In the December 2022 MCD elections, the AAP won 134 wards while the BJP managed to secure victories in 104 of the 250 wards.

The Delhi MCD mayoral polls are scheduled to be held on April 26 and will determine how far the BJP has managed to come at municipal level politics in the national capital.