According to a police official, the incident occurred on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday at Tungarli in Maval area of Lonavala, a popular tourist destination located around 80 km from Mumbai
The police have nabbed a 35-year-old man, resident of Tungarli, in connection with the incident. Representational Pic/File
A 23-year-old woman was allegedly abducted, raped in a car and then thrown on a roadside in Lonavala hill town of Maharashtra's Pune district, police said on Sunday, reported the PTI.
According to a police official, the incident occurred on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday at Tungarli in Maval area of Lonavala, a popular tourist destination located around 80 km from Mumbai.
The police have nabbed a 35-year-old man, resident of Tungarli, in connection with the incident, he said, according to the PTI.
According to the victim's complaint, she lives in the same locality, and was walking home on Friday night when a car stopped near her and a man forcibly took her inside. The accused then took her to an isolated place where she was allegedly raped in the moving car, the official said, as per the PTI.
The victim alleged she was taken to various places in Tungarli and after being sexually assaulted repeatedly, she was thrown on a roadside in the wee hours of Saturday, he said.
The woman then approached the Lonavala City Police Station and lodged a complaint against the man, he said, the news agency reported.
Based on the complaint, a case was registered under sections 64(2)(m) (rape) and 138 (abduction) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the accused was apprehended, the official said, reported the PTI.
The victim's claims were being verified, he said.
She initially claimed three unidentified men forcibly took her in the car and raped her, but during the probe, it came to light there was only one man in the car, the official said.
The probe also indicated the accused was known to the woman, he said.
Further probe into the case was underway, the police said.
Unconscious woman gang-raped by ambulance driver, technician in Bihar
Meanwhile, in an another incident, a woman in Gayaji, has alleged that she was gangraped inside an ambulance which drove her to a hospital after she fainted during a government recruitment test, police said, according to the PTI.
“We thereafter detained the driver and a technician who were in the ambulance,” said Gayaji SP Ramanand Kumar Kaushal.
The complainant was being driven to the hospital after she fainted during a recruitment drive for home guards.
“When the woman fainted, on July 24, she was rushed to the Anugrah Narain Medical College and Hospital at Gayaji in an ambulance. After she regained consciousness, she alleged that she was raped inside the vehicle,” said Kaushal.
Leader of the opposition in the state assembly, Tejashwi Yadav, shared on X a news clipping, adding, “Vote out of power the Nitish Kumar government to protect the girl child (Nitish sarkar hatao beti bachao).”
(with PTI inputs)
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