Mumbai: A 31-year-old Mexican disc jockey (DJ) was allegedly raped, threatened, and blakmailed by her manager for around four years in Mumbai, said police, adding that the accused was threatening the survivor with termination from her job if she protested.
The accused was arrested on Friday following a complaint filed by the survivor at Bandra police station around a week back.
Police said, “Survivor stated in her complaint to police that she met the accused manager, 35, who also works as a DJ, in 2017. After three years, on July 2019, accused outraged her modesty at his home in Bandra.”
“Since then, the accused has been repeatedly raping her. When she tried to protest, the accused threatened to end her assignment,” said the police, adding that “the accused even recorded her obscene videos and blackmailed her to circulate.”
The survivor further alleged that “the accused used to send her obscene pictures, and despite getting married on 2020, he pressurised her to indulge in sexual relationship with him.”
Acting on her complaint, a case under sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural sex), 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC was registered against the accused at Bandra police station and accused was rrested on Friday, said an official, adding that further investigations are underway in the case
