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52-year-old Mumbai man arrested in Mumbai for raping Brazilian student

Mumbai | ByPress Trust of India
May 22, 2019 02:07 PM IST

Padmakar Nandekar, has been arrested for the alleged incident that took place last month but came to light on Monday when the 19-year-old woman filed a rape complaint against him, a police official said.

A 52-year-old man running a charitable institution in Mumbai allegedly raped a Brazilian woman who came here to study as part of a youth exchange programme, police said on Wednesday.

The woman realised she was allegedly raped and then went to stay at her local guardian’s place in suburban Bandra without revealing the incident.(Representative Photo/AP File Photo)
The woman realised she was allegedly raped and then went to stay at her local guardian’s place in suburban Bandra without revealing the incident.(Representative Photo/AP File Photo)

The accused, Padmakar Nandekar, has been arrested for the alleged incident that took place last month but came to light on Monday when the 19-year-old woman filed a rape complaint against him, a police official said.

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The woman came to India a few months back and was staying here with Nandekar, who runs a charitable organisation and is also chairman of a residents’ association in Cuffe Parade area of south Mumbai, he said.

According to the woman, on April 15, Nandekar invited her for dinner at a hotel, where he allegedly spiked her drink following which she felt dizzy and went to a room there with him, the official said.

Next morning, the woman realised she was allegedly raped and then went to stay at her local guardian’s place in suburban Bandra without revealing the incident to anyone, he said.

She informed her guardian about the incident recently following which both of them went to the Cuffe Parade police station on Monday and lodged the complaint, the official said.

Nandekar was subsequently arrested from his residence on Monday night and booked under relevant Indian Penal Code sections for rape, he said.

He was on Tuesday produced before a local court which remanded him in police custody till May 24, he said, adding a probe was underway in the case.

(The story has been published from a wire feed without any modifications to the text, only the headline has been changed.)

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