Mumbai: Cop acquitted of rape case filed by lady constable

Mumbai: Cop acquitted of rape case filed by lady constable

The woman constable was declared hostile by the prosecution after she did not support the case in court.

Bhavna UchilUpdated: Monday, February 24, 2020, 08:13 AM IST
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Mumbai: A sessions court last week acquitted a 32-year-old policeman of a rape charge that a woman constable had filed against him. The 24-year-old woman had accused the man of having forcible sexual relations with her on the promise of marriage. Additional Sessions Judge KS Hore also acquitted the man of the charges of cheating and criminal intimidation.

The woman constable was declared hostile by the prosecution after she did not support the case in court. She told the court during her deposition that she had wanted to marry the man, though she was aware he was already married. She also informed the court that she had filed the complaint in anger and that the policeman had not committed forcible sexual assault on her.

According to police complaint lodged in mid-2014, she had got married in 2010, but relations with her husband soured. She shifted to Mumbai after being recruited into service as a police constable in 2011. While she was mainly residing in Raigad with her mother, but later due to work, she started to stay at her younger sister’s house in Chunabhatti.

In her police complaint, she had further stated that she had got acquainted with the policeman through family contacts and that they had exchanged mobile numbers and got friendly. The man had then proposed to her for marriage.

She had told him she was already married. He had persuaded her for marriage, and she had asked him to speak with her parents. While he was yet to speak with her parents, she had alleged in her complaint he made forcible sexual relations with her on three occasions — twice at her sister’s home when they were alone and once at another place where he had taken her by deception.

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