Mumbai woman raped in Palghar, 2 booked

A woman was allegedly raped at her birthday party at a friend’s house in Waliv, Palghar police said on Monday. The host’s boyfriend was also present at the party, held on February 13, and the two spiked the victim’s drink, a Waliv police station official said. “The woman host pinned the victim down when she was drowsy and her boyfriend raped her. The duo threatened the victim not to reveal it to anybody,” he said. The 27-year-old victim, a Kandivali resident, later filed a complaint with Waliv police on Sunday. Following the complaint, the woman host and her boyfriend, both in their mid-twenties, were booked for rape and criminal intimidation, said Palghar police’s public relations officer Hemant Katkar.