India, March 5 -- A car purchased by a rape accused was attached and auctioned off by police to compensate the victim of the money which he extorted from her, police said on Tuesday. Investigators said that section 107 (attachment, forfeiture or restoration of property suspected to be proceeds of crime) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) was invoked in the case, the first time in the country the provision has been used to compensate a victim.

Investigators said that the 34-year-old victim, a resident of Sector-90 working at a multinational firm, had alleged that the man, who is from Rajasthan's Jaipur, had raped her last year on the pretext marriage and had circulated her nude photographs among his friends.

He had also taken R...