Overview
- The accused, identified as Aarav Malik, an Amazon delivery agent from Chhatarpur, was taken into custody in Delhi following police raids.
- Police say he befriended a 27-year-old Safdarjung Hospital doctor on Instagram and kept up the deception over WhatsApp for months by claiming a posting in Kashmir.
- Investigators allege he visited her South Delhi home and spiked her food before sexually assaulting her.
- An FIR was registered on October 16 under relevant Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita sections, including rape, criminal intimidation, cheating by personation and causing hurt by poison.
- During interrogation, police say Malik admitted buying the Army uniform from a Delhi Cantonment shop, and officers are probing whether he targeted other victims using the same ruse.