Mumbai: After arresting and imprisoning a married man in North Mumbai for a month in connection with a rape case, the police on Thursday charged a woman in her mid-30s with attempting to extort Rs 1 crore from him. The male is a sales manager for a private company, and the woman was asking for the money in exchange for dropping the rape case against him.
Married man denied marrying girlfriend, he claimed he had never committed to marry her
According to the authorities, the man was taken into custody on November 10, 2023, after the lady he had been in a relationship with for more than six years with mutual consent filed a complaint against him for rape and cheating.
Before being released on bail on December 13, 2023, he endured imprisonment for about a month.
In his police statement, the complainant stated that the accused woman approached his sister and requested money in order to offer a “No Objection” for his bail, while his bail application was scheduled to appear before the court. Additionally, he claimed that his employer fired him when she complained to HR about his involvement in a rape case.
The police claim that the complainant has known the accused woman since 2012 and has been married since 2013. According to the man’s statement, the woman abruptly began pressuring him to marry her in 2022, but he refused, claiming he was already married. The victim then reported the man to the Borivali police for rape and betrayal.
The woman called the complaint numerous times after he was released from prison, demanding a meeting. The complainant claimed that after he met her, she asked Rs 1 crore from him to drop the rape complaint.
She kept persuading the guy when he refused to give her the money, and with the assistance of a private bank employee where the complaint has bank accounts, she was able to obtain the specifics of all his investments and savings.
According to the police complaint, he claimed them he had never committed to marry her.
According to the authorities, the man then found out that the woman had secretly linked both of her mobile numbers to his online accounts, , thus getting access to all his information, including his live location, banking transactions, private photos, etc.
They said the man got a threat message from her number last May stating, “You will never win and die in pain.” “Give money or die in jail…”
According to The Indian Express report, fed up with her extortion demands, the complainant man filed a private case in the Borivali court, which, after hearing his complaint, recently directed the Charkop police to register a criminal case under section 175(3) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita to register a criminal case and investigate the matter.
On the court’s order, the police have booked the woman, her brother, her friend, and an employee of a private bank under relevant sections of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Information Technology Act and are further investigating the case.
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