New Delhi: A 30-year-old French tourist was allegedly raped in Rajasthan’s Udaipur district by a man she met at a party. Police said the incident happened on the intervening night of Sunday and Monday.
Udaipur Superintendent of Police Yogesh Goyal told ThePrint the accused, Pushpraj alias Siddharth, is absconding and teams have been formed to nab him.
According to the First Information Report, a copy of which is with ThePrint, the woman arrived in Udaipur from New Delhi 22 June. The FIR has been registered at the Badgaon police station in Udaipur under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections related to rape.
The woman has said in the FIR she and her friends had gone out for dinner and later at a party.
“A bit later, a man came to our table. He proposed to me to go outside for a smoke, and then took me on a drive. I requested him multiple times to go home (to my hotel, Mardiran Palace) but instead he drove to his apartment. There he started to ask me for a hug, which I refused. My phone was off because of the battery. I asked several times to recharge my phone but he never gave me the cable for it so I could find the address of my hotel. Then he hugged me and started to touch me, while I was saying ‘No’ clearly,” the FIR reads.
The woman then accuses the man of raping her even as she cried. “When he was done, I begged him to take me home. He started by saying no, but eventually he drove me back around 6 am,” according to the FIR.
The woman’s medical examination has been conducted.
Police said the suspect, a resident of Udaipur, is involved in a small ad shoot business.
(Edited by Ajeet Tiwari)
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