RAJKOT: A 26-year-old married man was booked for raping an 18-year-old girl under the
pretext
of marrying her by blackmailing her.
The girl told the police that the accused,
Mehul Solanki
, had promised to marry her two years ago. Since she trusted him, over the two years she used to often visit him at his home in
Chamundanagar
in Rajkot where they used to get
physical
with each other. However, Solanki married someone else and when the girl learnt about it, she decided to break-up with him.
Police said that Solanki did not want to break-up with her and wanted her to continue the relationship, despite being married. But as the girl was adamant about cutting off all ties, he threatened that he will make the videos of their private moments public. Solanki then called the girl again to his house on October 16 by blackmailing her and raped her.
Police said that earlier Solanki had physical relations with the girl with her consent but as she was minor it will be considered as rape and now she was blackmailed and raped.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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