A temple priest was arrested from South Mumbai on 3 February for allegedly raping and blackmailing a married woman, according to the police.
The accused Prem Singh Parmar, 35, was produced before a local court on 4 February, which remanded him in police custody for five days.
The accused, has been arrested on 3 February night, said the police. Earlier, Parmar was associated with a temple in Cotton Green area where he had been reportedly raping the woman since 2013.
The police said Parmar befriended the woman, 38, when she used to come to the temple. A resident of Kalbadevi in South Mumbai, Parmar allegedly called the woman to his house under the pretense of offering her a “special prasad” in 2013.
He then put something in her drink and offered it to her. Immediately she lost consciousness upon which Parmar took her nude photographs with him, said the police. Blackmailing her to show the photographs to her in-laws, he repeatedly raped the woman on various occasions, according to police.
The police officer said the accused had also sent abusive text messages to the woman. Finally, the woman told her husband about the ordeal she was going through, following which a complaint was lodged at Gamdevi police station on 3 February night.
He was booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code, including rape, criminal intimidation and outraging the modesty of a woman.
