Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s Great-grandson Booked For Rape
Pune: Congress leader Rohit Tilak, who is the great-grandson of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, has been booked for allegedly raping a woman and forcing her into "unnatural" sex. Police registered a case against him on Monday night with charges of rape, unnatural offences, voluntarily causing hurt, insult with an intent to provoke breach of peace and criminal intimidation under the IPC.
The 40-year-old complainant and Rohit knew each other for the last couple of years. The victim said that Rohit raped her on the pretext of marrying her.
The 40-year-old complainant and Rohit knew each other for the last couple of years
Rohit is the great-grandson of freedom fighter Bal Gangadhar Tilak and grandson of late Jayantrao Tilak, who was a senior Congress leader and member of Parliament. Rohit had unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly polls from the Kasba Peth seat in Pune against the BJP's Girish Bapat.
