Bhubaneswar, Apr 26 (PTI) Police on Sunday arrested a grocery shopkeeper on charge of raping an MBA student at her rented house here, an officer said.
According to police, the incident took place on Friday night when the victim, a second-year MBA student from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, was alone at her rented house. Her roommate was away on April 24, police said.
The woman student, in her early 20s, had sought some grocery items from the nearby shop, for which the accused came to her house and raped her, finding her alone, police said, adding that the victim filed an FIR on Saturday.
A case of rape under section 64(1) and 62 of BNS was registered at the Info Valley police station and the accused was arrested.
Police said that the man was arrested after getting prima facie evidence. The woman’s allegations were substantiated through CCTV footage and other circumstantial evidence, police said.
The survivor’s statement was also recorded before a magistrate, and she was medically examined. Further investigation was underway to establish the full sequence of events, the police said. PTI AAM AAM RG
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