In an unnerving and a surprising twist in the Pune rape case, the police on Friday said that the suspect they had detained earlier in the day is actually the woman’s friend.
The 22-year-old techie had claimed that a stranger, who had posed as a delivery agent, entered her flat on Wednesday evening and allegedly raped her. She had also told cops that the accused had left a selfie on her phone with a warning against informing anyone of the incident.
According to a PTI report, the police, however, said that the man was in fact the woman’s friend, it was the woman who had clicked a selfie with him, and then typed a threatening message in her phone.
Doubts over woman’s version of events
“They know each other for a couple of years and belong to the same community,” Police commissioner Amitesh Kumar was quoted by PTI as saying.
The woman had claimed that she had passed out after the man had entered her home, and when she regained consciousness, he was gone. Before leaving, the accused clicked a selfie using her phone in which her back and a part of his face are seen, and left a message warning that he had taken her pictures and would release them on social media if she reported the incident, she told police.
Cops also ruled out that the use of chemical spray on the woman by the accused, as suspected earlier, the PTI report said.
(This is a developing story. Please check back for updates)