College student, 22, held for raping 19-year-old at a party
MUMBAI, Nov. 12 -- A 22-year-old college student has been arrested for allegedly raping a 19-year-old woman from the same college during a party organised at Madh Island last month.
On October 29, a group of students from a college in Juhu had travelled to Madh Island, which falls under the jurisdiction of the Malwani police station, for a party they had organised themselves.
"During the party, a female student was allegedly sexually assaulted by a 22-year-old male student, originally from Chhattisgarh," a police officer said.
The officer added that the accused allegedly spiked the woman's drink and sexually assaulted her after she lost consciousness. When the survivor returned home, she narrated the incident to her parents, who approached the Juhu police.
The police recorded the woman's statement and an FIR was subsequently registered at the Malvani police station on Wednesday under Sections 64(1) (ordinary cases of rape), 74 (assault or criminal force to a woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 123 (causing hurt by means of poison, etc., with intent to commit an offence) and 3(5) (common intention) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The accused was arrested in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday and brought to the city on a transit remand and has been remanded to five days of police custody....
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