Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh:
A man, who was released on bail after his arrest in a rape case in 2020, is alleged to have raped the same woman while holding a knife in Madhya Pradesh’s Jabalpur district. He threatened her to withdraw the complaint she had previously filed against him, police said.
The woman complained that the incident involving the suspect and his friend happened about a month ago, police said.
The woman, who is now 19, was raped by the same accused two years ago when she was a minor, an official said.
“According to the complainant, the accused Vivek Patel, who had previously raped her, committed the same crime with his friend,” said the chief of the police station, Asif Iqbal.
The suspect was arrested in 2020 for raping the minor. However, he was released on bail almost a year later in 2021, he said.
“In her complaint, the woman told police that the suspect had raped her with a knife about a month ago with his friend by forcibly breaking into her home. The suspect and his friend made a video of the act and then threatened to make the clip viral. on social media if the previous complaint she filed is not withdrawn,” Iqbal said.
A case of gang rape was registered on Monday and police have launched a search to arrest both suspects, he said.
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