A 27-year-old model and TV actress has registered a rape and sodomy case at Oshiwara police station, against a businessman from Hyderabad. Her statement was recorded at Oshiwara police station and the case was transferred to DN Nagar police station on Friday evening.

Sources have told mid-day that the small screen actor was in touch with the businessman since 2018, and the duo started dating each other soon after. The accused, identified as Vijay Naidu, would meet the survivor in Hyderabad, when she’d visit the city for shoots. Naidu also made several trips to Mumbai to meet her. The survivor, in her statement, said that she was raped during these trips. “I befriended him in March 2018 and he also gave me an engagement ring and promised to marry me. He then asked me to visit him at a hotel in Andheri. Despite my resistance, he raped me inside the hotel room,” said the model, in her statement to police.