Advocate arrested on rape charge, sent to judicial custody

A lawyer has been arrested for allegedly raping two women and remanded in 14 days judicial custody by a Delhi court.
Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Pritam Singh sent the advocate to Tihar jail till September 30, after the police said he was not required for interrogation.
The lawyer was arrested yesterday after a 19-year-old girl lodged a complaint in New Friends Colony police station here alleging that she had been raped by him on the false pertext of marrying her.
During the hearing, the court asked the complainant if she wanted to marry the accused. The girl replied that she will not enter into wedlock with the lawyer as she had been "cheated" by him after identifying the man in the court.

In another case, a woman, in her late twenties, accused the lawyer of establishing physical relations with her since 2011 during the pendency of a divorce case in which he was representing her.
The 19-year-girl had told the police that in March when the accused called her to his flat in south Delhi, the other woman (the second complainant) was also present there.
She said that as they both felt cheated, they decided to file complaints with the police.