Puducherry: An American woman, who had come to visit India, has been raped in Puducherry. Police have arrested the accused Mehraj-ul-Ashkin Bhat. He is 34 years old and runs a boutique. It was here that he became friends with the 64-year-old victim. The Odisha police said on Wednesday (February 1) that Mehraj had been running a boutique in Busi Gali for the last eight months. He had met the victim in the first week of January. Mehraj and the woman had also exchanged phone numbers to stay in touch with each other. Meanwhile, the woman also went to Tamil Nadu. When she returned to Puducherry, the two even went to have dinner one night.
According to the police, on January 30, the accused went to her room with the woman. Here, the two first made physical relations with mutual consent. After this, the woman refused to have a relationship with him. According to the police, Mehraj did not listen to the woman and raped her, and left. The next morning, the woman had pain in her private part. She asked him for help to go to the hospital. The accused refused to help her. After this, the woman herself reached the hospital. Doctors found injury marks on her private part and informed the police. Based on the woman's complaint, the police registered an FIR under IPC section 376 (punishment for rape) and arrested Mehraj.
Earlier in December 2022, room boys Shakeel and Sainuddin were arrested for allegedly raping a Russian woman who had come to visit Goa in a hotel room. Both the accused were residents of Bardiya in Nepal. On the very first day of reaching Goa, they raped the woman. The woman was staying at the hotel with her two friends. When she reached her hotel in the evening after visiting several tourist places in Goa, the two got a chance and raped her.
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