A automobile bought by a rape accused was hooked up and auctioned by police for ₹11.3 lakh to compensate the quantity that he allegedly extorted from the sufferer, Gurugram police stated on Tuesday.
Investigators stated Part 107 (attachment, forfeiture or restoration of property suspected to be proceeds of crime) of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) was invoked within the case for the primary time within the nation to compensate a sufferer.
Police stated the 34-year-old sufferer, working at a multinational agency, had alleged that the person, from Rajasthan’s Jaipur, had raped her final 12 months on the pretext marriage and shared her compromising pictures together with his buddies.
He additionally took ₹24 lakh and gold jewelry from her, claiming he wanted it to start out a enterprise, however, as an alternative, he used it to buy a automobile in his mom’s title and repay a mortgage taken by his youthful brother. The sufferer alleged the accused gave the jewelry to his mom.
On her grievance, an FIR was registered towards him beneath sections 69 (sexual activity by using deceitful means), 77 (voyeurism), 308(2) (extortion) and 351(2) (felony intimidation) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) and the Data Know-how Act at Sector-10 police station on January 2.
Police stated the accused, a photographer by career, was arrested on January 4 and continues to be in judicial custody.
Inspector Kuldeep Singh, station home officer of Sector-10 police station, stated that on January 11, police moved the court docket looking for to connect the automobile because the proceeds of crime.
“The order approving the attachment of the automobile, a Volkswagen Virtus, was handed on January 21,” he stated.
Police then mounted a base value for the automobile based mostly on a quote from the transport division and handed the ₹11.30 lakh over to the sufferer on Friday after auctioning the automobile by way of eAuction India, a central authorities portal, on February 25.
