Hockey player Varun Kumar booked
The HinduIndian national team hockey player Varun Kumar, 28, has been booked by the city police for rape and cheating under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, for allegedly sexually assaulting a 17-year-old minor girl in 2019. The victim said that the accused took her to the Jayanagar locality in Bengaluru in July 2019 for a dinner date, booked a hotel room on the pretext of chatting, and initiated a physical relationship with her, promising marriage, despite knowing that she was a minor at the time. The victim alleged that over the next five years, Mr. Kumar had a physical relationship with her many times, and took her to many hotels. The victim alleged that when she asked Mr. Kumar to marry her, he allegedly refused and even threatened to make their private videos public on social media.
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