SI booked for raping model

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 18

A Sub-Inspector (SI) of the Chandigarh Police has been booked on a charge of raping a Mumbai-based model, who came in contact with the cop earlier this year after she had filed a cheating complaint against a city youth. A case has been registered against SI Naveen Kumar at the Sector 31 police station.

UT SSP Nilambari Jagdale confirmed that the SI had been booked in a rape case.

Earlier this year, the victim had submitted a complaint to the UT police alleging that a city resident had fraudulently withdrawn Rs 12 lakh from her account. The complaint was marked to the cyber cell of the UT police for investigation. SI Naveen Kumar, who was then posted in the cyber cell, investigated the complaint following which a case was registered against the suspect, Rahul, a resident of Dhanas. Rahul had approached the victim through Facebook on the pretext of providing her modelling assignments and later allegedly duped her of Rs 12 lakh. 

Police sources said since SI Naveen was investigating the case, he became friends with the victim after which she was allegedly raped. 

The victim recently submitted a complaint against the SI to the UT police following which the police probed the matter and registered a case against him. Naveen is yet to be arrested. 

Was IO of Bitcoin scam

SI Naveen Kumar, who was the investigating officer of the multi-crore Bitcoin scam, was transferred from the cyber cell to the Police Lines, Sector 26, in July this year. Though the Police Department had stated that the transfers were made on administrative grounds, sources said there was a complaint against Naveen following which he was transferred.