By News18
A 25-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a person posing as a courier delivery boy in a posh society in Pune’s Kondhwa, officials said on Thursday.
The accused allegedly sprayed something on the woman’s face and then allegedly raped her.
According to the officials, the accused entered the society at around 7.30 pm on Wednesday as a courier delivery boy. Even as the woman said that there was no courier for her, he insisted, saying, “A signature is required”.
When the woman opened the safety door, the man sprayed something on her face and allegedly raped her.
After the sexual assault, he took a selfie using the woman’s phone and left a chilling message on it that read, “I’ll be back”.
The police have registered a case and an investigation into the matter is underway.
In a separate incident that took place in Pune earlier this week, a 17-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by two motorbike-borne unidentified persons.
The incident took place on a highway at around 4.15 am on Monday in the Daund area, the police said.
According to the officials, the car in which the girl, along with three other women, halted on the stretch after the driver needed a tea break.
“As the driver felt sleepy, he halted the car near a tea stall. When the driver stepped out to answer nature’s call, two unidentified men approached the vehicle and threatened the occupants with sharp weapons and robbed the gold jewellery,” a police official told news agency PTI.
“One of the accused then took the minor girl out of the car and sexually assaulted her,” he added.