Leader held for pressurising rape victim’s family

Thane: Kalyan police arrested a local Shiv Sena leader on Tuesday for allegedly trying to put pressure on a gang-rape victim’s family to withdraw the case.

Assistant commissioner of police V N Phulkar said that police had arrested the Sena leader Deepak Bhoir after a court denied him anticipatory bail.

A 13-year-old Dalit girl was allegedly gangraped by six youths in Kalyan on February 15. Police arrested all six accused. According to the police, Bhoir who is related to one of the accused was pressurising the victim’s family to withdraw the complaint, offered them money and asked them to leave the city.

PTI