Man sends rape CD to victim’s mom

Bengaluru, Nov 8: Girl who rejected his marriage offer was the daughter of his former teacher

A teacher got the shock of her life when she learnt her former student had raped her daughter.

The incident took place last December when the 24-year-old man allegedly raped the girl, who is a post-graduate in business administration and currently employed with an MNC bank, after luring her to his home and spiking her soft drink. For the past several months, he had been using a CD recording of the incident to coerce the girl into marrying him. It was only on October 31 that the teacher got to know about the sordid story and she immediately approached the police.

Since the case involved CD recordings, the cyber crime police were brought in. The sleuths subsequently confirmed the authenticity of the recording, following which the pervert, identified as Praveen Kumar K, was arrested.

Police said the accused knew the victim for the past several years as he used to regularly visit their home for private tuitions as a PUC student. Even after he ceased to be a student, he would often visit his teacher's house since he lived in the same vicinity. He often engaged in conversation with the victim too.

Neither the teacher nor her daughter had any suspicions about the accused. In December last year, the accused invited the victim to an alternative residence on Magadi Road, saying it was his birthday party. When the victim arrived, she was surprised to see there was nobody else. The man claimed the others would join them later and offered her soft drinks allegedly laced with sedatives. He then allegedly raped her and even recorded the act on his mobile phone, police said.

On regaining consciousness, the girl learnt the man had lied to her about his birthday. However, she left without any idea about the recording. Fearing her parents' reaction, the victim did not reveal the incident to them. Soon after the incident, the man started forcing the victim to marry him. When she refused, he showed her the video clippings and also threatened to kill her. When she persisted in her refusal, he converted the recordings to a CD and also took printouts and handed them over to his teacher, the officer said.

"We have also been told that the accused had showed and forwarded the clippings to a few of his friends. We are in the process of retrieving them. His mobile phone containing the video clippings has been seized. The accused owns a brick kiln and has been taken into police custody for investigations," the officer added.

Further investigations are on.