A 21-year-old nursing student on Saturday filed a rape case against a prominent educational entrepreneur and founder of the privately-owned Parul University located at Waghodia near here, police said.
The complainant also accused the woman rector of the girls’ hostel of the nursing institute affiliated to the university, where she is studying, of abetting the crime, police said.
In the FIR, the complainant said she was raped by the accused Jayesh Patel (66) at his residence, located near the girls’ hostel, after the rector Bhavnaben Patel took her there, Vadodara Rural SP Saurabh Tolambiya said.
The victim said she was taken to the residence of Patel on Friday night, following which he raped her. He threatened to rusticate her from the institute and fail her in her course in case she revealed it to anyone, police said.