Mumbai BJP corporator Anil Bhosale.

MUMBAI: A BJP corporator from Kashimira has been booked for allegedly raping and having unnatural sex with a 44-year-old married woman.

The corporator Anil Bhosale is the general secretary of the Mira-Bhayander unit of the BJP. He is also the ward committee chairperson of the Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation (MBMC).

The complainant on Friday approached the Kashimira police station with photographs with Bhosale. In her complaint she alleged that she met Bhosale in 2012 when she was fighting a divorce case with her husband who works in Malaysia.

On the pretext of helping her, Bhosale began dropping in at her house. She alleged that Bhosale forcibly had sex with her and filmed the act. He then began using it to blackmail her. Thereafter he took her to hotels in Vasai and raped her. She alleged that he threatened to kill her son and close down her beauty parlour.

The police filed a case of rape (376) and unnatural sex (IPC 377). No arrest has been made.

