MH-RAPE-ARREST

Maha: Cook held for raping woman, posting obscene pics online
    Thane, Oct 14 (PTI) A 22-year-old man has been
arrested for allegedly raping a woman in Maharashtra's Thane
city and defaming her by posting her objectionable pictures on
social media, police said on Monday.
    The accused, Gurucharan Pritam Saha, a native of Tehri
Garhwal district in Uttarakhand, worked as a cook at a hotel
in Thane city.
    Sometime back, he took admission at a city-based
centre conducting English speaking classes where the 20-year-
old woman was also enrolled.
    In April this year, the accused lured the woman on the
pretext of marrying her and took her to a lodge where he
allegedly raped her and clicked some objectionable pictures,
Naupada police station's senior inspector Anil Mangle said.
    The accused later posted the pictures on the Instagram
accounts of the woman's brother and friends following which
she lodged a police complaint last week, he said.
    During the probe, the police traced the accused to his
hometown in Uttarakhand and arrested him on Saturday, he said.
    The accused has been booked under Indian Penal Code
Sections 376 (rape) and 354 (molestation), and provisions of
the Information Technology Act, the police added. PTI COR
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