Silvester D’Souza
Daijiworld Media Network – Kundapur (EP)
Kundapur, Sep 30: A married man attempted to rape a married woman after entering her house. Though the woman lodged a police complaint regarding the incident, he returned after a week and threatened the woman that he would rape her 13-year-old daughter, if the woman did not marry him. The man hugged her daughter and also tried to molest her. The incident has been reported from the Shankernarayana police station limits here in the city.
Balakrishna Shetty (56), resident of Molahalli Hornadi has been identified as the person who threatened the woman. The police have registered a case of rape and blackmail against him.
Balakrishna Shetty is employed as a supervisor in the Varahi project. He obtained the mobile number of the married woman who resided on the road side near Airbail. Shetty used indecent language for the last two months over the phone and promised to buy gold jewelry for her and also transfer his property in her name. He also urged her to marry him and promised to look after her well.
Sources say that he threatened that he would not spare her if she told anyone about him. However, one night he entered her house, pulled her saree and tried to rape her, but ran away when she screamed. A complaint in this regard was registered in the local police station, but the man was granted bail by the Kundapur court.
When her daughter was waiting for bus on Saturday September 27, the accused Balakrishna began insulting her mother using filthy language and also threatened to rape the daughter if the woman did not leave her husband and come with him. He then hugged the girl, but fled as soon as the home people arrived.
The woman lodged a complaint with regard to this at Shankernarayana
police station. A police team led by Kundapur DySP C B Patil and circle inspector P M Diwakar have set a trap for his arrest.