NAGPUR: After 12 years of being together, a 43-year-old woman filed a rape complaint against her live-in partner with the Gittikhadan police station on Monday evening.

The complainant, a divorcee, claimed in her police complaint that she came in contact with the accused, Santosh Pendam, 43, of Gond Mohalla, Sadar, in 2003. She told police that she was staying with her daughter when Pendam had gained entry into her home in the absence of her daughter. She claimed that he threatened to kill her daughter and forced her into a physical relationship. As per the woman’s complaint, since 2003 Pendam has been forcing her into physical relationship till now.

Police sources said the woman was in a live-in relationship with Pendam from past 12 years. The complainant and the are social workers with a tribal organization. Cops said Pendam is learnt to have begun an affair with another woman and hence his partner filed a rape complaint. Police are yet to arrest Pendam.

Woman raped on marriage promise

Nagpur: On a 24-year-old woman’s complaint, Gittikhadan police have booked a Nikki Jhodape (30) on rape charges. The woman claimed that Jhodape forced her into physical closeness by promising marriage. Jhodape maintained the relationship for a year and after that reneged on the marriage promise. Thus, the woman reported the matter to police.

The woman said she was even abused, thrashed and threatened with dire consequences by Jhodape’s brother Vicky and mother Chanda when she went to their home to question Jhodape. Police have also booked Jhodape’s brother and mother for threatening and abusing her.

Teenage boy kills drunkard father

A 19-year-old Rakesh Gormore was arrested by Hingna police for allegedly killing his alcoholic father Sanjay Gormore (40), a resident of Amgaon, Devli. The murder took place on Tuesday evening when Gormore came home in an inebriated condition and abused everyone at home. Police said Goremore would regularly beat his wife. Fed-up of the regular drama, Sanjay lost patience and stabbed his father to death. Hingna police have registered a case of murder.

Double murder victims identified

Hingna police have identified both the men who were found murdered in a sewer on Gujar Road, Gumgaon. The bodies were found floating on May 2. Police had suspected the deceased to be from Rajasthan.

Police said the deceased’s family members contacted cops on seeing their photos in newspaper. Both the deceased Gorelal Gujar (32) and Sanjay Singh Shekawat are from Madhya Pradesh .

Cops said Gujar was a truck driver while Shekawat was a cleaner. Police found their truck at Kelvad.

Rs 8 lakh saved to buy home stolen

Rajkumar Satvekar had saved money for eight years to collect Rs 8 lakh to buy a home. The money was stolen from the Ambedkar Nagar, Wadi, residence of the Satvekars when the family was away at a relative’s wedding in Madhya Pradesh for three days.Satvekar returned home on Monday evening to find the main door lock broken open and cash Rs 8 lakh and a gold chain, kept in the drawer of the bed, missing. Satvekar works with a private company at MIDC. He told police that he had been saving money to buy a home from 2007. He said that a few months ago his father-in-law had also given him a few lakhs. All the money was stolen.

A case has been registered at Wadi police.

Ganja worth Rs 10 lakh seized from train

In a joint operation of NDPS cell of crime branch and the railway police, 100.9kg ganja worth Rs 10 lakh was seized from Ahmedabad-Puri Express. Three people involved in transporting the drugs were also arrested while three more suspects managed to escape.

The raid was conducted at 2.45pm when the train reached Nagpur central railway station on platform no. 3.

DCP economic cell and cyber crime Deepali Masirkar has received information about the ganja being transported from Puri station. By the time NDPS cell headed by PI Panditrao Sonwane set the trap, railway police team headed by police inspector Nitinchandra Rajkumar also joined the crime branch team.

During searches after the train reached the station, police found bathrooms of two sleeper compartments were locked. Cops rounded up the sweeper , and opened the bathroom to find six bags and a nylon sack with ganja. The sweeper, Sukesh Maharana from Puri, said a man offered him Rs 1,000 for transporting each bag.

Along with him, five other workers were involved in the job. Police arrested Prashant Mahapatra and Pramod BagaSingh, also from Puri. Three others managed to run away.

All the alleged accused arrested will be produced in the court on Thursday.

