Pune rape-robbery: Two people have been arrested in Pune for forcing a 19-year-old woman to get intimate with her cousin on camera, raping and robbing her of her gold locket worth Rs 10,000, police said.
According to an ANI report, a Pune court has remanded two accused to police custody until March 7.
Police said the accused, identified as Amol Pote (25) and Kishore Kale (29), allegedly raped and robbed a woman in Shirur taluka of Pune district on Saturday night.
Police Inspector Mahadev Waghmode of Ranjangaon Police Station on Monday said the victim and her cousin were threatened with a sharp knife by the accused, who arrived on a scooter while they were talking at a secluded place.
The accused forced the woman and her cousin to engage in a ‘obscene act’, recorded the act on video, and subsequently raped her. Before leaving, they took her gold locket worth Rs 10,000, Waghmode said.
The victim and her cousin informed their family, who alerted the police.
“The police registered an FIR and arrested the accused within a few hours in the early hours of Sunday. The mobile phone and locket were recovered, and the accused were charged with gang rape and robbery," Waghmode added.
Source: News18