Overview

• The complaint alleges assaults on July 13 and August 22 at the family home near Talaja in Bhavnagar district when the woman was alone.
• Investigators said the brother used knowledge of his 22-year-old sister’s three-year consensual relationship to blackmail and control her.
• Police reported the second incident included burning the woman’s thigh with a lit bidi or cigarette, leaving visible injuries.
• Talaja police registered the FIR after the helpline report and arrested the 29-year-old accused, who is married and works as a driver.
• Officer D P Khambhla said a knife and clothes were seized, medical examinations of both parties were completed, and BNS sections 64(2)(F)(M) and 115(2) were invoked as the inquiry continues.