A 45-year-old resident of The Belaire in DLF 5 was arrested on Friday evening for allegedly raping an 18-year-old friend of his daughter when she visited their home in the high-end apartment on Thursday for a sleepover, police said.
The suspect, a businessman, lives in a rented apartment at The Belaire and has been staying in Gurugram for the last eight years, police said.
The incident took place between 4 and 5 am on Friday, when the victim was at the house of the businessman. His daughter, who studies abroad, had come to India for a holiday and invited her school friend to her place, the police said.
He was arrested within three hours of the police receiving a complaint of rape against him. He has confessed to the crime and will be produced before a court on Saturday, KK Rao, commissioner of police, said.
According to Poonam Hooda, station house officer at the women’s police station, the victim, along with her mother came to the police station around 12 noon Friday, and lodged a rape complaint against the businessman. ‘She has complained that her friend’s father raped her on Thursday in his bedroom,’ she said. A case was registered under sections 376 (rape), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 328 (causing hurt by means of poison) of the Indian Penal Code at the women’s police station in Gurugram’s Sector 51 on Friday after the victim complained to the police.
