Engineer held at Delhi airport for ‘raping’ technician | India News

KOLKATA: A California-based engineer hailing from Bengal’s Midnapore was stopped from boarding an international flight in Delhi and arrested on charges of raping a software engineer at a hotel in Kolkata, Dwaipayan Ghosh reported.
The action followed a lookout notice issued against him in the rape case registered two years ago. Accused Arghya Pattanayak He was detained by immigration officials at IGI airport on Friday and handed over to Delhi police. The police also informed their colleagues in Kolkata.
On Sunday, he was brought to Kolkata for transit detention and produced before the court, where he remained in police custody for 5 days. During interrogation, the defendants denied the rape accusations and claimed that their relationship with the woman was consensual.