Rajasthan man accused of raping French girl arrested from his Chittorgarh home

Police mentioned the accused, Pushpraj Ojha alias Siddharth, runs a casting firm that was related to the capturing of an commercial on June 22 at varied areas in Udaipur. The 30-year-old rape survivor was in Udaipur for a similar shoot.

According to the primary data report (FIR) registered on the girl’s grievance, she arrived in Udaipur on June 22 and was at a restaurant along with her pals on June 23 (Monday night) when Ojha allegedly approached her. They stepped out for a smoke and later went for a drive. But as an alternative of dropping her on the resort, he took her house the place he allegedly raped her. According to the FIR, the accused dropped her off on the resort at 6am on Tuesday.

Udaipur superintendent of police (SP) Yogesh Goyal mentioned the accused fled Udaipur on Tuesday morning after he allegedly raped the girl on Monday evening.

“Prima facie, the sufferer had been working for a number of Indian manufacturers as a background dancer and actor for a very long time. She got here to Udaipur on Sunday to shoot for a number one electronics model. Siddharth was a part of the identical crew,” he added.

As he was being taken away by the police, Ojha insisted that he was being framed. “I didn’t rape her… It’s a conspiracy that has been hatched in opposition to me by some trade folks as I’m an outsider. I used to be going to give up solely when the police picked me up right now,” he mentioned.

Badgaon police station home officer (SHO) Pooran Singh mentioned the FIR was registered beneath Section 64 (1) (rape) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) on the girl’s grievance after she reached the resort. “She instructed her two pals concerning the incident. As she fell sick, they rushed her to a non-public hospital within the metropolis and approached the police who filed a grievance based mostly on the girl’s major assertion,” Singh mentioned.