A 28-year-old man allegedly raped a 25-year-old woman in Greater Noida, pressured her to abort the foetus when she turned pregnant, and, fearing she would strategy the police, framed her by capturing himself in the leg and telling the police that she had shot him, law enforcement officials related to the case mentioned on Sunday.
“On Sunday round 2am, the management room acquired an emergency name from Harikesh Singh, 28, a resident of a village in Greater Noida. He mentioned that an unidentified individual shot him in the leg and fled the scene,” Rudra Kumar Singh, assistant commissioner of police, Zone-4, Greater Noida.
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“A staff of the Jewar police rushed to the scene and took the injured man to a close-by hospital. However when the police suspected he was hiding one thing, they interrogated him and realized that he had shot himself in the leg along with his country-made pistol. In the course of the investigation, the police realized that Singh and his buddy raped a 25-year-old woman in his neighbourhood,” mentioned ACP Singh.
When the woman realized the Harikesh had been shot and had filed a grievance towards her, she approached police and filed a grievance towards him. In accordance to ACP Singh, the woman’s medical report is awaited.
“In her grievance to the police, the survivor mentioned that Harikesh and his buddy raped her. After they found she was pregnant, they pressured her to bear an abortion,” ACP Singh added.
“When Harikesh suspected that the survivor would strategy the police to lodge a rape case towards him, he devised a plan and shot himself to frame her in a false case,” mentioned ACP Singh.
““Harikesh, his spouse, who assisted him in the woman’s abortion, and his buddy, have been booked on expenses of rape at Jewar police station on Sunday and arrested. Harikesh was additionally booked below Part 325 (voluntarily inflicting grievous damage) and Part 182 (false info with intent to trigger a public servant to use his lawful energy to the harm of one other individual) of the Indian Penal Code,” mentioned ACP Singh.