Chennai: Stalker Follows Home Alone Woman & Rapes Her At Knifepoint

The woman after initial hesitancy filed a complaint at the Adyar All Woman police who traced the youth using his phone number and arrested him on Monday.

Chennai: A 20-year-old youth raped a 43-year-old woman at knifepoint after stalking her for three days from her workplace to her residence.

The arrested youth was identified as S. Vishal of Palaniamman Koil street. According to police, the youth took to the crime after finding that the woman was staying alone. 

According to the police, the youth saw the woman at MRTS railway station at Triplicane when she was returning home after work and found that she was taking a train to Velachery. He followed her for three days and found out where she was living.

Police said that the man found that the woman was living alone on the first floor of a rented house and on Saturday, he found that the ground floor apartment was locked.

He knocked at the door of the woman and told her that he was looking for a home for rent in the locality and asked her for water.

Once the woman went inside to bring water, he entered the home and locked it from the inside and threatened the woman with a knife and raped her.

Police said that he had shot the nude photos of the woman and threatened her that he would upload her nude photos if she informed the police.

He also sent a missed call to his number from the woman's number and saved her number. He called her later and threatened her that he would upload her photos.

The woman after initial hesitancy filed a complaint at the Adyar All Woman police who traced the youth using his phone number and arrested him on Monday.

The youth was remanded to judicial custody.