Model’s rape: two more arrested in Mumbai

Six persons, including three policemen, were arrested

April 24, 2015 03:47 pm | Updated 11:46 pm IST - Mumbai

The Mumbai police have held two more persons in connection with the alleged rape of a 29-year-old model inside a police post here. With this, eight people have been arrested in the case, three of them policemen.

In addition to sexual assault of the victim, the arrested have been accused of extortion.

Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime) Atul Kulkarni said those held on Friday worked as police informers and were accomplices of the accused policemen.

Among the arrested are two assistant inspectors and a constable, besides a woman who posed as a constable, to allegedly extort money and rape her after threatening to frame her in a false case according to the victim’s complaint. The others, said the police, had peripheral roles in setting up a scenario she found herself caught in.

Different versions

The victim and the accused have provided different versions of the sequence of the events, with the accused policemen purportedly admitting to extortion but not rape, said police sources.

According to the complaint, the woman had gone to a five-star hotel in Sakinaka for the casting of a film, where she met an agent and his friend. When the agent told her to go to one of the rooms to meet the production staff, she refused and left the hotel. “She told us that when was walking away from the hotel, a police vehicle pulled up, and the occupants, three policemen in plainclothes — Assistant Police Inspectors Khatape and Suryavanshi and Constable Kode — from the Sakinaka police station stopped her. She was threatened that if she failed to board the vehicle, they would implicate her in a false case. Once she got in, they took her to the police post,” said a police officer.

The accused told the police that they had a tip-off that the woman was indulged in flesh trade and that they had sent decoy customers and agent to the hotel. They admitted that they brought her to the police station and demanded money but denied sexual assault,” said a police sources.

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