A 38-year-old former chief medical officer (CMO) from the Vasai-Virar Municipal Corporation (VVMC) hospital was arrested by the Waliv police on Tuesday for raping and blackmailing a doctor for nearly a year. According to the police, CMO Dr Sunil Wadkar met the survivor in 2013, after she was recruited as a doctor in the same government hospital.

“When the woman was selected for the doctor’s post, CMO Dr Sunil Wadkar was assigned to train her. During the course of this training, Wadkar took her out for dinner once to a restaurant on the Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway, where he had secretly booked a room.