Mumbai crime: Bar girl says hubby duped her of Rs 1.17 cr, pimped her out

Ravi Shetty the bar girlrsquos husbandA 30yearold bar girl from south Mumbai has lodged an FIR with the police alleging that her husband duped her of Rs 117crore The bar dancer who has worked in Mumbairsquos infamous bars like Baywatch and Topaz alleged that her husband also pimped her to his friends She has said in her complaint that her husband took money from her saying he was investing in the bar business but splurged on other bar girls instead and also had extramarital affairsThe police have booked the husband Ravi Prakash Shetty for cheating pimping and have also booked one of his friends Rati Krishna Patnaik alias Sonu for raping the complainant Shetty is currently absconding while Sonu has got anticipatory bail Came to city from Delhi The woman whose name has been withheld who hails from Delhi came to Mumbai around nine years ago with her daughter and brother in search of a job In Mumbai the woman with the help of a friend got a job as a bar dancer and singer at Topaz bar Grant RoadThe woman who has passed SSC later joined another bar Baywatch at Dadar There she came in contact with a rich customer Dinesh Jain Jain gave her a flat on the 11th floor of a building at Lamington Road and they lived together for four years before partingThe woman again resumed dancing at bars and joined Borivlirsquos Charwak bar Here she met the accused Shetty an employee After a few days Shetty proposed marriage to the woman and threatened to kill himself if she did not marry him They eventually got married in January 2013In the FIR midday has a copy the woman stated that soon after marriage Shetty started asking her for money to invest in other bars The woman said she dipped into her savings and even borrowed from friends to give him the money to invest Losses in business He kept telling her that he had suffered losses in his business and could not repay her When she could not help with more money he then forced her to do a private dance show for his friends at a bungalow ldquoWhen I said I would not he again threatened to kill himself and I finally agreed At the bungalow his friend Sonu and his three friends raped me through the nightrdquo she stated in her complaint to DCP Zone 2 She told the police that Shetty pimped her 1213 times and earned lakhs from highprofile customersShe later learnt that Shetty had been splurging on other bar girls and had even been living with another woman Approached policeAfter her friends urged her to file a police complaint the woman finally approached the DB Marg Police on September 30ldquoThe police initially registered a case of dowry harassment and criminal breach of trust Also Sonu managed to get anticipatory bail on October 15 The police did not oppose the bail plea in courtrdquo the woman alleged in a letter to additional commissioner of police south regionSenior inspector of DB Marg police station Narayan Shinde said ldquoThere was some monetary dispute between the complainant and accused in this case As these facts emerged during the preliminary inquiry we presented them before the court Probably taking cognisance of this the court gave the accused anticipatory bailRegarding the other sections not been applied at the beginning Shinde said ldquoThe complainant was not clear about the facts of the case and because of this sections of Immoral Trafficking Prevention Act and rape could not initially invoked in the case against Shetty and Patnaik We have now applied these sections toordquoThe police are now investigating the matter and checking the veracity of the allegations the woman has made in the complaint