3 arrested for rape, harassment and blackmail Andhra BTech student | News from India

VIJAYAWADA: Three software engineers, graduates of NRI Engineering College in Agiripalli in Andhra Pradesh district of Krishna, were arrested on Saturday for raping their fellow BTech in 2017. They were also held for harbadment and blackmail.

The accused – Krishna Vamshi, 24, Siva Reddy, 23, and Dodla Praveen, 25 – were arrested in Vijayawada, where they were hidden.

"We booked lawsuits against them, retrieved phones and sent them for badysis, during which time all the defendants were brought before the District Court and sent to pre-trial detention," said YVL Naidu, an inspector. from Hanuman Junction, to YOU.

The accused had stung his companion's drink at a birthday party in a hotel in Agiripalli in February 2017, had raped her and filmed this act odious.

Police said that the girl was in her last year of BTech when the incident occurred, but the college leadership tried to smother him and would have settled the case in managing to "understand" that the accused would delete all photos and videos of the girl.

However, two months ago, Praveen began to blackmail her, demanding badual favors and money. The accused claimed Rs 10 lakh from the survivor, who was to be married soon, and threatened to make the videos public if she did not have to.

Cops said the trio created a WhatsApp group and shared the video. The survivor's father alleged in his complaint that the video was shared in other groups. On the basis of the complaint filed by the girl's father, the cops registered a case under articles 376-B of the CPI (gangrape) and 354A (indecent indecency of a woman) and 67 of IT Act.

Praveen was named as the main defendant because he was the one who started harbading the survivor to sleep with him two months ago and circulated the video, which would have been erased.