The owner of a medicine shop allegedly raped a girl for four years in Cuttack city by blackmailing the victim with her obscene pictures.The 21-year-old girl, who resides at Mahtab Road here with her family, had in 2016 gone to the medicine store in the locality, during which the accused took her to the doctor chamber inside the shop and offered her soft drinks laced with some drug. When the girl fell unconscious, The accused then allegedly raped the girl and clicked the obscene photos. Later, he pacified the girl by promising to marry her. However, he started blackmailing the girl by threatening her to upload the obscene photos on social media and raped her multiple times during the last four years.
The victim eventually mustered courage and lodged a complaint in this connection with the District Legal Services Authority on February 2.Police are investigating into the incident.