Rohit Tilak, Congress leader and the great-grandson of freedom fighter, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, has been booked for allegedly raping a woman and forcing her into ‘unnatural sex,’ said the police.
The case was filed against Rohit late last night. Rohit is also the grandson of late Jayantrao Tilak, a senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament.
According to police, the 40-year-old complainant and Rohit knew each other for the last couple of years. “The complainant alleged that Rohit repeatedly raped her on the pretext of marrying her,” said a police officer, reported Indian Express.
The police have slapped several charges on the Congress leader including of rape, unnatural offences, voluntarily causing hurt, insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and criminal intimidation under the Indian Penal Code.
Notably, Rohit had unsuccessfully fought the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly polls from the Kasba Peth seat in Pune. He contested against the BJP’s Girish Bapat.
