A Chandigarh-based businessman, who had allegedly raped a woman at a hotel in in Connaught Place area, has been arrested, police said on Saturday. 58-years-old Vijay Chand, who deals in pharmaceutical products, was arrested from Chandigarh on Friday night. He was brought to Delhi on Saturday afternoon.
A 33-year-old entrepreneur on Friday had registered a complaint against Chand for allegedly raping her. The victim told the police that she had met Chand over lunch to discuss business dealings at a hotel in Connaught Place area on Friday afternoon.
The police said that the accused was known to the victim as she claimed to have met him a few times earlier in Chandigarh. According to the police, the incident came to light when the woman, who lives in South Delhi’s Defence Colony area with her brother, called up the police to report the matter.
According to her complaint, the woman alleged that the accused spiked her drink with sedatives and took her to a room in a hotel in the inner circle of Connaught Place, where he raped her. The woman said that she called up the police after she gained consciousness but by that time the accused had fled the spot, said a senior police official.
“We got a PCR call around 7.50 pm and a PCR van was rushed to the hotel. A CAT ambulance also reached the spot,” he added. Police have registered a case under Section 376 (rape) and 328 (Causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
According to police officials, the duo knew each other for three years as they first met in a medical store, owned by the accused.
Chand was produced before the court on Saturday afternoon following which he was sent to judicial custody.
A case has been registered in Connaught Place Police Station.