MUMBAI: MIDC police recently arrested a 42-year-old college professor who allegedly raped a student, now 18, and forced her to perform unnatural sex on the college premises and at his home, when she went for tuitions between February 2020 and February 2022.
The professor, who is in custody, used to teach physics and chemistry at a college in the western suburbs.
The accused and victim stayed in the same building in Andheri (E). "He committed the first offence in February 2020, when she had gone to his house for tuitions," said a police officer. "He sexually assaulted her after narrating his personal life and how he was fighting cancer," said the officer.
The matter came to light when the victim broke down and narrated the ordeal to her parents when they visited Udaipur to meet her where she studying. The victim said, "The accused captured a video of the act and blackmailed and threatened me. He continued committing the offence till February 2022, before she went to Udaipur."
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
