A police officer was booked on Wednesday on charges of raping two women, including his former wife, between 2003 and 2012.The Azad Maidan and Dahisar police filed the cases against Senior Inspector Ravindra Jaisinghrao Medsingh after the Mumbai Crime Branch conducted an inquiry into the allegations and submitted a report to Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria.Medsingh, who was attached to Local Arms Division 2, has been suspended. Though the alleged sexual assaults began in 2003, the victims didn’t approach the police as Medsingh had apparently threatened to book them in false cases and harm their families.In January this year, the victims approached Maria, following which the Crime Branch began its probe.One of the victims was a police informer whom Medsingh met in 2005 when he was posted at the Bandra Anti-Narcotics Cell. Even though he was married, he pressured the woman into a relationship and later raped her in Kolhapur, where she had gone for an assignment with a police team.In 2011, the two got married, but split the next year after she learnt about his first wife and children. Despite the divorce, Medsingh continued to call the woman. He allegedly raped her multiple times and on one occasion, he fired his gun in the air in an attempt to threaten her.According to the victim’s complaint with the Azad Maidan police, he warned her that he would book her in a false case if she approached the authorities.The second victim is a 32-year-old Dahisar woman whom Medsingh met in early 2003. He was posted at the Dahisar police station at the time, and the woman had approached him to file a complaint against her husband for domestic violence.Medsingh kept calling her on one pretext or the other, and in March that year, he allegedly raped her at gunpoint in a car inside the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.Nine years later, in September 2012, Medsingh suddenly showed up at her residence and falsely claimed in front of her husband that he was having an affair with her.After suffering in silence for all this time, the two victims finally approached Maria in January this year. One of the women has also filed a writ petition in the Bombay High Court.The Azad Maidan and Dahisar police filed first information reports (FIRs) against Medsingh on Wednesday. “Such behaviour cannot be tolerated. We have suspended the officer,” Maria said.