Mumbai: A 32-year-old man was arrested by the Kurla police for allegedly harassing his 19-year-old wife by forcing her to get Rs 9 lakh from her family. He had raped the woman when she was a 13-year-old Class 6 student.
The girl had agreed to drop the case under the condition that he would marry her. Later he married her in 2017 when she turned 18, but within two months of their marriage, the husband and his mother started harassing the victim.
A police officer said, “The victim’s mother-in-law started demanding Rs 9 lakh from her family, claiming the money was spent to defend her son in the rape case. She even poured kerosene on the victim to torture here.”
She left her husband in January 2018 and started living with her parents. But he kept harassing her and stalked her for a few days he even abused her several times over the phone and also threatened to throw acid on her.
In September, she had posted her photo on a social networking website, following which he posted vulgar and defamatory comments on her photo. Scared and disturbed, she then lodged a complaint against her husband with the Kurla police.
She came to know that her husband was going to go to Kurla railway station on Thursday following which she alerted the police, after which the police arrested him.
He has been charged with sections 509, 506 of the IPC and 67A (publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act, etc., in electronic form) of Information Technology Act.