A Mumbai based model on Wednesday lodged a complaint with the police alleging that she was repeatedly sexually abused by a serving IPS officer, Sunil Paraskar.
According to the complaint filed by the 25-year-old Gladrags model, Paraskar, who is the Deputy Inspector General (Protection of Civil Rights) with the Maharashtra police, allegedly raped and molested her in late 2013 when he was posted as the Additional Commissioner of Police (North) region with the Mumbai police. The victim has alleged that she was raped at a three-star hotel in Malwani in suburban Mumbai.
According to the complainant, last year she had approached Mr. Paraskar to file a complaint against a website for using her photographs and name on an online escort service. Acting on the complaint, the police had arrested a 21-year-old impostor who looked identical to the victim for running an escort service. But post her complaint, she was harassed by the officer and even sexually abused by him.
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In July the victim had even took to twitter and posted her grievance against the officer. “I’ve been tortured, harassed by ex-additional commissioner Sunil Paraskar, his officer Manish Nalawade 4 months, in my own look-alike case,” the victim had tweeted. On July 21 she posted, “Yes ...still can’t sleep... I will sleep the day both get arrested... In fact there will be 3 to 4 arrests,” she tweeted.
The victim met Mumbai Commissioner Rakesh Maria on Tuesday with her complaint. A case was filed on Wednesday and the victim was subjected to a medical examination. The report is awaited.
“We are in the process of verifying the claims made by the victim. Statements of the hotel staff members where the alleged incident took place are being recorded. We have also sought CCTV footage of the hotel,” a senior police officer from the Mumbai police told
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