Sportswoman accuses doctor of rape, police begin probe

kolhapur — A prominent international level sportswoman from Maharashtra has accused a Karnataka doctor of raping her for two years, police said.

According to investigating officer Dilip Tibile of Karveer police station, the complaint was received earlier this week from the 33-year-old sportswoman against a doctor living in Gulbarga town in north Karnataka.

“The complainant has said the accused has repeatedly raped for over two years with hopes of marriage and then renegeding on his promise. The accused is absconding,” Tibile said.

The victim said she came in touch with the doctor via social media in December 2016 and after sometime, he visited Kolhapur to meet her. Later, he proposed marriage and since he appeared to be from a respectable background, she agreed to the proposal.

Subsequently, till March, he called her on two occasions to Goa and Bengaluru and sexually assaulted her, as per the complaint, said Tibile. When she reminded him of the marriage proposal, he flatly refused to marry her.

Shocked by this, the sportswoman threatened to lodge a police complaint. However he retorted by warning her of dire consequences on social media and even threatened to kill her, according to her complaint.

Taking serious note of the grievances, the Kolhapur Police have formed teams to hunt down the doctor, said Tibile.

14-year-old raped, 3 arrested

A 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a village in Kaushambi, Uttar Pradesh, by two youths, who have been arrested, police said ton Saturday.

The girl was allegedly lured by a woman of her village to a secluded spot and handed over to the youths, who raped her on Friday, Superintendent of Police Pratap Kumar Gupta said.

Infant raped, killed; 1 held

A four-month-old girl was sexually assaulted and murdered in Indore, police said, adding that the accused has been arrested. The incident occurred in the M.G. Road area. The infant was abducted, raped and killed in a vacant basement just 50m away from where her parents were sleeping early on Friday. —