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Delhi Police Conduct Potency Test on Actor Ashish Kapoor in Rape Probe

Police call the AIIMS report crucial to evaluating the complainant's revised account.

Overview

  • Doctors at AIIMS conducted a medical potency test on Friday, with Delhi Police saying the report will be key evidence.
  • Kapoor was arrested in Pune earlier this week after a weeks-long search that tracked him from Goa, according to police.
  • An FIR was registered on August 11 at the Civil Lines police station under section 64 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita following a 24-year-old woman's complaint.
  • The complainant initially alleged drugging and assault by multiple men and said the incident was filmed with threats of online release, before later stating that only Kapoor raped her.
  • Investigators say the case, first handled as gang rape, may be reclassified to rape as they take legal opinion and continue the probe.