Mumbai, January 5: In a shocking incident, a man in Mumbai raped his 17-year-old daughter by blackmailing her with a video of her having sex with her boyfriend. Reports inform that the 40-year-old man has been booked by city police for raping his minor daughter. According to a report by TOI, the girl’s 17-year-old boyfriend, too, has been booked for rape. Police informed that the father absconded after the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act Court rejected his plea for anticipatory bail. However, the boy’s plea for anticipatory bail was allowed. Mumbai Shocker: 46-Year-Old Man Accused of Wife Swapping, Booked For Allowing His Friends to Rape His Wife & Filming It.

The TOI report states that the matter came to light after the girl's mother found her nude videos in her phone’s gallery in November 2019. Later, the mother found the father had been taking the videos on the girl’s phone but failed to delete them. Disturbed by the incident, the girl described her ordeal to her mother following which the mother lodged a complaint against the father. Mumbai Shocker: Woman Murders Daughter's Lover by Strangulating Him.

The rape survivor, in her statement to the police, informed that she was in a relationship with a college-mate. The video was recorded on July 15, 2019 when the boy came home to seek her help for a college project in presence of her parents.  Giving details about the incident, the girl said since the girl was unwell and went to rest, the boy came to her and got intimate with her, thus sexually assaulted her.

The girl stated that she did not tell anyone about the incident but when her mother was not around, her father showed her a video of her with the boy. The girl revealed that her father began to blackmail her and raped her after repeated threats. The man threatened her to show the video of her and the boy to her mother, make it viral and divorce her mother if she told anyone of his crime.

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