Overview

• Authorities apprehended 29-year-old Pushparaj Ojha alias Siddharth from his home in Chittorgarh on June 25 after a multi-agency search.
• Ojha has confessed to raping the French tourist and has been charged under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita’s rape provision.
• The victim told police she was lured from a party at The Greek Farm Cafe and Restro on Tiger Hill to Ojha’s rented flat in Sukher under the pretext of sightseeing, and could not call for help when her phone battery died.
• She was treated at a private hospital in Udaipur, where she filed a complaint from her hospital bed and an FIR was registered at the Badgaon police station.
• The French Embassy in New Delhi has been notified and political leaders, including former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, have criticized the state’s handling of law and order.