PUNE: The Bibvewadi police have arrested a 20-year-old youth for allegedly raping a 23-year-old woman, promising to marry her. The incident took place at Samarthnagar between December 2012 and January 23, 2013.

Gopal Phulchand Rathod , a resident of Bibvewadi, has been charged under sections 376 (rape), 420 (cheating) and 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of the Indian Penal Code.

Assistant inspector S V Jagtap said the victim and Rathod were colleagues. "Rathod had developed a friendship with the victim. When he came to know that the victim was separated from her husband, he asked her to marry him," Jagtap said.

Jagtap said Rathod raped the victim between December 2012 and January 23, 2013. "When the victim came to know that Rathod had cheated her, she threatened to lodge a police complaint against him," Jagtap said.

Rathod threatened to kill the victim's brother and his children if she were to inform the police. But she approached the police and lodged a complaint against Rathod, Jagtap said.

