A 37-year-old married woman was sexually exploited by her school friend at Barkhedi area; a case of sexual assault was registered on Sunday by Mahila thana.
According to the police, the victim was sexually assaulted by the accused Manohj Bhumarkar for the past two years.
In her complaint, the victim told the police that the accused was his classmate in school and later in college and later she got married. For years the accused never contacted and victim was also not aware of the victim’s whereabouts.
Accused send a friend request to the victim in the year 2017 over facebook and as she was acquainted with the accused she accepted and later the accused who used to live alone in Barkhedi called the victim to meet at her room where he raped her after sedating and took obscene photographs and made video.
The accused told the victim that he had taken obscene photographs and made video and threatening to make them public accused sexually assaulted the victim for the past two years and annoyed over the atrocities victim reported the incident to her husband and the two lodged a complaint with the police.
Based on the complaint after preliminary investigation the police have registered a case under section 376 and 506 of the IPC and have started further investigation.
After the complaint was lodged police tried to contact the accused but failed. Police said that the accused work with government department while victim’s husband works with a private firm. SR