Police file charge sheet against IPS officer accused of raping Facebook friend

The Delhi Police has filed the final charge sheet against an IPS officer of West Bengal cadre, over a year after a woman who he befriended on Facebook accused him of raping her, sources said on Sunday.

The Delhi-based woman had in 2018 accused the officer of raping her on the promise of marriage.

The charge sheet was filed earlier this month, the sources said.

According to the charge sheet, the woman and the IPS officer became friends on Facebook and within a few months of chatting and video calls, the IPS officer met her in Delhi on January 27.

The woman alleged that he kept promising that he would marry her.

On their first meeting, the two went to a mall in Vasant Kunj for dinner.

The next day, they met again and he offered her some chocolates induced with liquor. The woman felt dizzy after consuming them after which he brought her to a hotel and started making advances. Though she tried to resist, he continued, the woman had said in her statement, which is also mentioned in the ...