Overview
- The complaint was filed by a woman Sub-Inspector at the Mahila Police Station in Bhubaneswar.
- The accused, 2017-batch officer Yoshobant Acharya, was recently promoted to Inspector in-Charge and posted to Kalahandi.
- Police said Acharya was arrested on charges of rape, cheating and criminal intimidation following the complaint.
- According to the complaint, the relationship began nearly eight years ago under repeated promises of marriage, with the first sexual encounter reported during her 2018 posting at Kendrapara.
- The woman alleges a years-long live-in relationship across postings in Ganjam, Gajapati and Bhubaneswar, pressure to abort a pregnancy, and later discovery that Acharya was already married with a son.