Mumbai News: Man arrested for repeatedly raping 21-year-old ‘Instagram Friend’
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Strap: The woman, in her complaint, said that they met on Instagram four months ago and started meeting each other in-person soon.
Date: July 13, 2024
A 24-year-old has been arrested by the Sakinaka police for repeatedly raping his Instagram friend and holding her captive for more than a week.
The accused has been identified as Asad Shaikh, who is a tempo driver. He had forcibly taken along the 21-year-old victim on June 27. On July 5, she was rescued after the Ghatkopar cops got a tip-off.
The woman, in her complaint, said that they met on Instagram four months ago and started meeting each other in-person soon.
Here’s how he was apprehended:
On April 13, around 8 pm, Shaikh called the girl on the pretext of going for a drive. He drove her in his tempo to the Jari Mari area and tried to rape the victim by stuffing a handkerchief in her mouth. She somehow shouted for help and a passerby came to her rescue.
Despite the incident, Shaikh brazenly kept calling her, but she did not answer.
Later, on June 11, the victim was at Kurla’s Phoenix mall around 10 pm. The accused came to know about her location and he went there, snatched her phone and started walking towards Jari Mari. Shaikh allegedly lured her into his tempo and raped her in it. When the woman resisted, he banged her head on the vehicle’s door, causing her head to bleed.
He further blackmailed her that if she won’t continue to be in a relationship with him, he would commit suicide. With the same threat, he raped the victim multiple times.
On June 27, he took her to Vasai and kept roaming with her in his tempo for several days. In the meanwhile, the woman’s family filed a missing complaint at the police station.
On July 5, Shaikh along with the woman came to deliver goods near the Kurla bus depot. Acting on the tip-off, Ghatkopar police filed a zero FIR, caught the accused and handed him over to their Sakinaka counterparts.
