Karnataka Police: A man, posing as a police official, was arrested in Karnataka for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman multiple times and also for threatening to leak her intimate pictures online, the police said.
An all-women police station in Mangaluru arrested the 22-year-old man on Thursday (August 10) for the crime, they added.
The victim woman lodged a police complaint on August 8.
In her complaint, she alleged that she got in touch with the man who initially posed himself as a police inspector through Instagram.
She claimed that he promised her to secure a job for her family members and gathered personal identification documents.
He took her to a local temple and to the popular Tannirbhavi beach here in May and took some intimate pictures of them together.
She alleged that he later threatened to post her pictures on social media and forced her to go with him to lodge in Bengaluru where he raped her.
He also took her to a lodge at Kinnigoli near where the woman was sexually assaulted.
The accused later threatened to post her nude pictures on social media and also demanded Rs 1.5 lakh for deleting her pictures, she alleged in the police complaint.
The police said the man was identified as Yamanur who was a street theatre artist and used his police costumes to cheat the woman.
He has been charged under various sections of Indian Penal Code including sexual assault and 67(A) of the Information Technology Act.
The accused was produced in court on Thursday and remanded in judicial custody.
(With PTI inputs)
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