Maharashtra: Cop rapes woman who wanted to withdraw rape case against her friend

A Maharashtra cop on Saturday booked for allegedly raping a 23-year old woman when she went to withdraw her rape complaint that she had filed against a friend of hers in Thane, district. The police officer reportedly took the victim to a guest house in Kalyan and allegedly raped her.

While a case under sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of Indian Penal Code (IPC) was registered against police sub-inspector Rohan Gonjari, who is yet to be arrested.

The victim had earlier lodged a complaint of rape with Mankurd Police in Mumbai, which was later transferred to Shanti Nagar Police Station in Bhiwandi for investigation. And When the woman told SI Gonjari that she wished to withdraw the complaint as she was friends with the accused.

Assuring her, Gonjari asked her to meet him. According to reports, when the woman came to meet him, he then took her to a guest house in Kalyan and raped her. Further investigations are currently underway and the validity of claims is being ascertained.

In a similar incident from Mumbai,  a doctor was booked for harassing his wife and got married to another woman without divorcing the first.

According to reports, the doctor belongs to a different community and the first wife had converted to marry him in the year 2005. However, the doctor re-married and forced her first wife to stay with the second wife. It was when he started physically abused her and demanded money that he approached the police.

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