Karan Oberoi case: Astrologer who accused the actor of rape arrested

The 35yearold astrologer who accused Karan Oberoi of rape was arrested on Monday by the Oshiwara Police for allegedly staging an attack on her Earlier the police had also arrested her lawyer Ali Kaashif Khan The astrologer was attacked by two bikeborne assailants on May 25 2019 while she was going for a morning walkAccording to sources after registering the FIR on the basis of a complaint by the astrologer the cops arrested the four accused who were involved in the attack Upon further investigation the police found out that the complainant and her lawyer have a direct role in the caseAlso ReadKaran Oberoi case Attack on astrologer was conspired by her lawyerThe complainant had earlier accused an actor of raping her in 2016 Based on her complaint the actor was arrested The victim conspired with her lawyer to build a strong case against the actor and hence the latter hatched a plan along with his relative said an officerAfter planning the attack the victim first posted the locations where she would be going for her walk on her social media account Based on that the two bikeborne assailants reached the spot early in the morning on May 25 2019 While one attacked her with a cutter on her right hand the other threatened her with taking back the caseThe accused Altamash Ansari and Zeeshan Ahmed both know the lawyer while one of them is a relative While Altamash took some money to execute the plan Zeeshan lent his bike to the attackers Arafat Ahmed and Jitin Santosh who were arrested earlier and confessed to the crimeSenior PI Oshiwara Shailesh Pasalwad said The complainant has been arrested under section 182 False information with intent to cause public servant to use his lawful power to the injury of another person and 203 Giving false information respecting an offence committed of IPC we are probing the matter further Another of the accused will be arrested soonAlso ReadBikers attack astrologer tell her to withdraw rape case against Karan Oberoi or elseOn May 25 2019 the Oshiwara Police had registered a case on the basis of a complaint by a 34yearold astrologer While she stated that she was attacked by two bikeborne assailants she had also accused Karan Oberoi of rape who was arrested by Oshiwara Police earlier and now is in judicial custodyTop five news stories of the dayMumbai Crime Powai police arrest pervert exprofessor for stalking harassing studentThe Powai police on Saturday arrested a man who formerly worked as a professor at a premier engineering institute in the city for allegedly sending lewd messages and videos to one of his exstudents The accused identified as Vijay Deshmukh had been fired from the institute in 2018 following the students complaint to its womens cell But he resurfaced in her life recently after she returned from South Korea following which she filed a police complaint against him Read moreMumbai trashes BMCs successful ban claims as city vendors still use banned plasticLife is plastic and fantastic for Mumbai once again While the Maharashtra government and Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation BMC have been making tall claims regarding the effective implementation of the plastic ban a test drive by midday at various markets in the city has revealed a very different picture Close to a year since the state implemented the ban plastic bags are still being freely handed out in the open market Read full storyFemale leopard that attacked two kids found dead in ThaneThe decomposed carcass of a 10yearold female leopard that attacked two children a couple of days back was found in the forest patch in Murbad Thane on Saturday The children were attacked when they had gone to the forest with their grandmother to collect firewood and fruits in Karpewadi forest on Friday afternoon Read full storyMumbai A year and Rs 334 crore later Gokhale Bridge opens upAlmost after a year since repair work started Andheris Gokhale Bridge was fully opened to the public on Sunday morning The work which started in July last year after the cantilever footpath on the southern end of the bridge collapsed was carried out at a cost of R334 crore Soon after the incident Western Railway WR had undertaken a safety audit of the bridge with help from IITBombay following which major repair and strengthening works had been identified Read full storyMaharashtra radiologists to join doctors stirThe Maharashtra State Branch of Indian Radiological and Imaging Association MSBIRIA has decided to support the striking doctors in West Bengal To show their solidarity with them members of the association have decided to shut all radiodiagnostic modalities like sonography Xray CT scan MRI etc for 24 hours across the state from 6 am today Read full storyCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updates