This story is from August 4, 2020

Ahmedabad man booked for raping FB friend from Surat

Ahmedabad man booked for raping FB friend from Surat
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SURAT: A 34-year-old married woman has lodged a complaint of rape against a man from Ahmedabad who she had befriended on Facebook two years ago.
The woman approached Khatodara police station on Sunday with the complaint against 36-year-old Adhyay Soni, who stays in Paldi area of Ahmedabad. She alleged that Soni had falsely claimed that he was a bachelor and promised to marry her.
Soni’s wife also shared his objectionable photos with the woman’s husband, she alleged.
There was a fight between the couple and the complainant returned to Olpad to stay with her parents.
The woman said he had received a ‘Hi’ message on her Facebook messenger around two years ago, but she did not reply then. During lockdown in May, she was checking her FB page on her husband’s phone and replied to the old message. Later, Soni and the woman started exchanging messages and she shared her phone number with him.
Since the woman has a feature phone, she talked with him or sent messages to Soni. After a few days of developing friendship, the woman told Soni that her husband harassed her and threatened divorce. In reply, Soni claimed that he was unmarried and offered to marry her.
On June 6, Soni came to meet her in the city and they went to a hotel in Althan where they spent a day together in a room. The woman alleged that Soni raped her and sent her back home after allegedly threatening to kill her.

On June 9, the woman received a call from an unknown number and the caller told her that she is calling from the school of her children and asked for her husband’s number since fees were due.
The woman shared her husband’s number. Later, her husband received the call and the woman identified herself as Soni’s wife. She then sent the photos to him, said Khatodara police station sources.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)
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