TNN | THE TIMES OF INDIA (April 27, 2014)

Mumbai: Actor Inder Kumar, who was arrested on Friday for allegedly raping and assaulting his girlfriend, who is a model, was produced before a holiday magistrate court in Bandra on Saturday. He has been remanded in police custody till Wednesday.

 Kumar’s wife told the media that her husband was innocent and the complainant had trapped him. She added that the girlfriend was pressuring Kumar for a relationship after threatening to harm herself.

 Denying allegations leveled by his girlfriend, Kumar told the police he had had consensual sex with her. The girlfriend said the attack took place after Kumar, who is in a troubled relationship with his wife, was summoned by the police following his wife’s complaint for torture and his affair.

 The actor allegedly raped his girlfriend, hit her with beer bottles, kicked her in the stomach, bit her and burnt her with cigarettes at his Versova flat on Wednesday. The woman also alledged that Kumar had locked her up. His lawyer, Amarendra Padgaonkar, told the court Kumar and the model had fought with each other after which the actor, his wife and girlfriend went to the cops. But the girlfriend reportedly didn’t mention the harassment at that time. “There was no rape. They were in a consensual relationship. The woman willingly lived in his house. The actor had not locked her up,” said Padgaonkar. 
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PTI (MUMBAI MIRROR; April 27, 2014)

A local court on Saturday sent actor Inder Kumar Saraf to police custody till April 30 on the charge of raping his girlfriend after prosecution said it was a serious offence and they need time to probe. The 40-year-old actor, who was arrested on Frday by Versova police, was produced before a Bandra Magistrate, who remanded him in police custody for four days. The victim lodged a police complaint alleging that the actor had sexually assaulted her since Wednesday night at his Andheri apartment before she escaped from his flat on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.

 She said the actor had molested her on the pretext of getting her roles in films. The victim also claimed that she had been thrashed and hit with a beer bottle by Inder. She had burn wounds on her body indicating that the actor burnt her with his cigarettes, police said. Inder told police that he is being framed. He has even said that he had consensual sex with his girlfriend, the model.

 Outside the court, Inder's wife told reporters that her husband was innocent and had been trapped by the victim. The model had threatened to commit suicide if he did not involve himself in a relationship with her, she alleged.

 The actor's lawyer Amarendra Padgaonkar said there was a fight between the model and the actor on April 24 following which Inder, his wife and the victim had gone to the police station. However, police sent them back saying they were busy as it was an election day. If she was raped, why did she not mention this on that day to police, he asked