Out On Bail, Rape Accused Stabs Woman To Death In Rajasthan: Police

Since the time he was out on bail, the accused had been threatening and asking the woman in Rajasthan's Sirohi district to withdraw the rape complaint against him.

A man, out on bail in a rape case, was arrested today in Rajasthan's Sirohi district for allegedly stabbing to death the woman he had raped last year, the police said. The accused had been pressuring the woman for withdrawal of complaint against him since he was out on bail and stabbed her to death on Saturday night at her house in Nagani village in Sirohi district, Additional Director General (Crime) Ravi Prakash Meharda said. He confirmed the arrest of the accused, Netram, this morning. "He had raped the victim and a case had been lodged against him in November 2020. He had been arrested by the police and had been in judicial custody for six months," said the officer.