15/6/2018
PUNE: The
Sinhagad police booked a Dhayari-based man - who is a tattoo artist and also
runs a pharmacy - for repeatedly raping and blackmailing a 35-year-old woman
taxi driver over the past one year.
The tattoo artist’s wife, who too is a pharmacist, has been
booked by the police for threatening the survivor and trying to hush up the
matter. The taxi driver, a divorcee, claimed the suspect had shot a video clip
of her in a compromising position on his cellphone. He had then circulated the
same video clip among nearly 150 individuals using a mobile social messaging
service, she alleged.
Baban Khodade, the inspector of Sinhagad Road police, is
currently investigating the case. No arrests were reported till late on
Thursday night. The tattoo artist runs a pharmacy at the Dhayari Chowk, He had
got acquainted with the woman taxi driver - who used to park her vehicle at the
chowk while waiting for taxi hire calls - about a year ago.
In her police complaint, the woman said the man had told her
about his tattooing skills and since she wanted a tattoo herself, she told him
about her desire of getting a tattoo made on her hand. The man invited her to
the back of his pharmacy, where he said he would make the tattoo. He then
started working on the tattoo.
According to the First Information Report (FIR), when the
woman taxi driver complained about the tattoo process being very painful, the
suspect asked her if she wanted a painkiller from his pharmacy. Then, in the
name of a painkiller, he offered the woman a cold drink laced with some
sedative, the FIR reported.
When the woman lost her consciousness, the suspect allegedly
raped her and filmed the entire act on his cellphone. He also took her
photographs in compromising positions. Soon, the man started blackmailing the
taxi driver by threatening to release the video clip and photographs online and
make them ‘viral’ on the social networking sites, the FIR added.
0 comments:
Post a Comment