Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru
Bengaluru, Oct 5: Mumbai police officials in the guise of food delivery boys entered an upscale housing complex in Bengaluru to arrest a 23-year-old man accused of raping, filming and extorting Rs 5 lac from a 22-year-old Mumbai woman.
Earlier in August, the victim had reportedly filed a complaint in Mumbai following which the police registered an FIR in the case.
Towards the end of August, police officers from JJ Marg police station in Mumbai investigating the case, learnt that the accused was staying in Bengaluru with a woman.
To avoid suspicion at the upscale society he was living in the police planned to enter the area as food delivery boys. The police from his call records discovered that the accused would frequently order food from a food delivery app.
Police then ordered food from the same app when they found the accused doing it and then entered the gated society and his apartment after seeking permission from the accused person, a report by Indian Express stated.
He was produced before a court in Bengaluru and was later sent to Mumbai on a transit remand.
The woman met the accused Mohammed Shaukat in Mumbai in 2017 through the social media platform Snapchat. The accused had claimed that he is a footballer from Punjab, who was in the city to get treated for a thigh injury.
The man was accused of tricking the victim into visiting his hotel, where he allegedly raped her and made a video of the act, Times of India reported.
In her complaint, the woman said he had promised to marry her but a day later, he sent her the video threatening to upload it on social media. The woman accused him of blackmailing her for money, the police said.
Police said the accused kept taking cash from the woman before the lockdown was imposed in March this year following which she was forced to transfer money to his bank account. Starting from December 2019, the accused managed to take Rs 5 lac. She approached the police when the demands did not stop.
Police registered a case of rape, cheating, assault, criminal intimidation and extortion under the Indian Penal Code and IT Act.