Pune courier delivery boy rapes woman, leaves after snapping selfie as threat

An unidentified man raped a 22-year old woman in Pune, Maharashtra, by entering into her home by impersonating as a courier delivery executive on Wednesday evening. It is said that the man clicked the woman a selfie and left messages on it, a warning.

It happened at about 7.30 pm in one of the housing societies in the in Kondhwa area. The man had knocked on the woman door when she was alone at home, pretending that he was delivering a courier.

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“Her brother had gone out for work. The accused knocked on the door claiming to be delivering a courier and managed to enter the flat,” a senior police officer told reporters.

The accused even used the phone of the victim to take his selfie and made a message on the victim, not to report to anyone about the crime since he had captured her pictures in his phone and would forward those on social sites, deputy commissioner of police (Zone 5) Rajkumar Shinde told PTI news agency.

Three moments ago, a delivery boy carrying an envelope of the bank went inside the flat of a 22-year-old woman at about 7:30 pm yesterday. As she moved into her house to bring the pin to give to the messenger, he locked the door and raped her DCP Shinde said.

“A total of 10 teams, five of the crime branch and five zonal teams, are working on the case... The woman had been unconscious since 7:30 pm,” he said, adding, the fact that an offense under sections 64, 77 and 351(2) of the BNS have been filed under Kondhwa Police Station of Pune.

Providing further details, an official said, “The man came to her house posing as a courier delivery agent and gained entry. He asked for a pen to sign (a document) and as she turned her back to him, he came inside the house and latched the door.”

"The woman does not remember anything (further) as she gained consciousness around 8.30 pm. The woman then informed her relatives and subsequently police were alerted," Shinde added.

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Police believe that the attacker might have used some substance to knock her unconscious. “There is a possibility that the accused used some substance to make her unconscious. The police were verifying if any spray was used,” the official added.

The area was covered with a CCTV which captured the face of the suspect and the police are in progress of trying to identify and track the suspect. “The face of the accused has been captured in one of the CCTV cameras in the area and efforts were on to trace him,” PTI quoted an official as saying.

Forensic experts were also summoned to the scene to investigate on whether there was the use of a chemical in the attack. "Forensic experts were called on the spot to check (if something had been sprayed on her). A selfie was found in the woman's phone. We are analysing it," the official confirmed.

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