‘Victim’ demands Rs 1 crore from married man in Mumbai to withdraw rape case against him, booked

He spent almost a month in jail before coming out on bail on December 13, 2023.

The complainant, in his statement to the police, said that while his bail plea was to come before the court, the accused woman approached his sister and demanded money to give a ‘No Objection’ for his bail. He also said that the company where he worked sacked him acting on her complaint to his company’s HR that he was booked in a rape case.

According to the police, the complainant has been married since 2013 and has known the accused woman since 2012. As per the man’s statement, in 2022 the woman suddenly started insisting him to marry her, to which he refused, saying he was already married. The woman then filed a rape and cheating case against the man with the Borivali police.

After the complainant came out of jail, the woman made dozens of phone calls to him insisting on a meeting. He thus met her, and she demanded Rs 1 crore from him in order to withdraw the rape case, the complainant alleged.

When the man refused to give her the money, she kept pressuring him and also managed to get the details of all his savings and investments with the help of an employee of a private bank where the complainant has bank accounts.

He told the police that he had never promised to marry her, the police complaint stated.

The police said that the man later discovered that the woman secretly added her two mobile numbers to his internet accounts, thus getting access to all his information, including his live location, banking transactions, private photos, etc.

They said the man got a threat message from her number last May stating, “You will never win and die in pain.” “Give money or die in jail…”

Fed up with her extortion demands, the complainant man filed a private case in the Borivali court, which, after hearing his complaint, recently directed the Charkop police to register a criminal case under section 175(3) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita to register a criminal case and investigate the matter.

On the court’s order, the police have booked the woman, her brother, her friend, and an employee of a private bank under relevant sections of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and Information Technology Act and are further investigating the case.