Saharanpur, August 2: A 25-year-old police constable has been arrested on Tuesday for allegedly raping a BSc student, police said. Superintendent of Police (city) Rajesh Kumar told PTI that a police constable posted at a police station in Amroha district, and a resident of Deoband, has allegedly raped a BSc student after blackmailing her to post her edited photograph.

A case has been registered against the police constable at Deoband police station, and he has been arrested, he added. In a police complaint lodged by the girl's father, he claimed that the police constable was harassing his daughter for the past one year. Uttar Pradesh Shocker: Police Constable Arrested for Allegedly Raping 23-Year-Old Woman in Jhansi.

On July 29, he called her on the Saharanpur-Muzaffarnagar highway, then forcibly took her to a hotel where he raped her.

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