A middle-aged man from Junagadh in Gujarat’s Saurashtra region has been booked for allegedly raping a doctor and later going back on his word to promise of marrying her since she belonged to a lower caste.
Police said the accused person came in contact with the woman on social media and soon they became friends. The woman said in her complaint that the man had established intimate relations with her with a promise to marry her but ditched her.
The victim is a 38-year-old medical officer from Gandhinagar. Police said no arrests had been made so far.
An FIR was lodged at a Gandhinagar police station Sunday against the accused under Section 376 for rape and sections of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
“From July to December last year, the accused established physical relationship with me multiple times claiming he would marry me as soon as he divorces his wife. I was also taken to a hotel in Porbandar in the last week of December in 2021 where the accused made a relationship with me,” the victim said in her complaint.
“When I asked him to marry me in January, he stopped receiving my calls. On Saturday, he called me and said that since he belongs to an upper caste and I belong to a lower caste, he cannot marry me,” she added.
