The Supreme Court docket lately granted bail to a Punjab man who was not solely booked for rape but in addition accused of threatening the complainant by allegedly leveraging his hyperlinks to gangster Lawrence Bishnoi.
As a part of his bail petition, the accused produced purported proof, together with WhatsApp chats and a name file, that an SP-level Punjab Police officer made to the lady who had filed the rape criticism.
The accused claimed that he was in a live-in relationship with the complainant, who later developed a relationship with the police officer. Based on the accused, the officer used his affect inside the police pressure to implicate him in a false case of rape and threats towards the lady.
“There may be not an iota of proof to counsel that the petitioner threatened the complainant within the identify of gangster Lawrence Bishnoi. She concocted the false story to implicate the petitioner beneath the affect of the… officer serving within the Police Division. The motive behind the false implication is clear from the WhatsApp chats and video recordings, because the officer was in a relationship with the complainant and couldn’t tolerate the petitioner’s relationship along with her,” stated the petitioner’s advocate, R Ok Grewal, whereas talking to The Indian Specific.
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