Pinay raped in India by man she met online, suspect arrested

A Filipina has accused a young businessman she met online of raping her in Bihar in India, a United Arab Emirates-based news site reported on Sunday.

 

Police in India have arrested the 21-year-old businessman after the Filipina lodged a written complaint with them, according to a report on Gulf News.

 

The report identified the arrested suspect as Gyan Prakash, who runs a petrol pump business.

 

He confessed having developed "intimate contacts" with the victim during interrogation, the report said.

 

While the report did not name the Filipina, it described her as working on an American government project in Afghanistan.

 

Initial investigation showed the Filipina developed a friendship with the suspect, who invited her to Bihar then raped her at a hotel in the international tourist city of Bodh Gaya.

 

The Filipina said that when she arrived in Patna on Dec. 29, the suspect - a resident of Mainatard locality in Bihar’s West Champaran district - brought her to Bodh Gaya in a private taxi.

 

There, they stayed in a hotel where she was raped.

 

Forced sexual relationship

 

“At the hotel, he forced me to establish sexual relationship with him and I was not in a position to register any protest since I was quite terrified,” the Gulf News report quoted the victim as saying in an e-mail complaint to the Bihar’s Director General of Police Abhayanand.

 

She sent the email to the state police chief on January 15, although she filed her complaint after flying home from Bodh Gaya on January 2.

 

“I am virtually distressed and torn at the behavior of the man who turned out to be quite greedy fellow. Not only he forced me to pay all the bills during my travel from Patna to Bodh Gaya, but he also got me buy pants as well as shoes for him,” she said.

 

Police arrested the businessman and lodged a case of rape and cheating against him.

 

Local police superintendent Sunil Nayak said they tracked him via his IP address on Friday.  — ELR, GMA News