India, April 5 -- A former ward councillor of Pataudi and his associate were booked on Friday for allegedly gang-raping and blackmailing a woman on the pretext of helping settle a legal and matrimonial dispute with her husband, police said on Saturday.

The FIR was registered against the suspects under sections, including 70(1) (gang rape) and 351(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Pataudi police station, an officer said.

The officer, privy to the investigation, said the 33-year-old survivor, in her complaint, alleged that the former councillor first approached her in Pataudi sub-divisional court in October 2024 during a hearing of her domestic violence case.

The suspect took the survivor into his confidence, c...