Rajat Sharda, 33, allegedly sexually assaulted the 29-year-old Connecticut woman in August 2013, threatening her not to report the incident, The Telegram reported today.
The woman testified in court that on August 6, 2013, night she was inside a parked sports utility vehicle (SUV) with her boyfriend Michael Betancourt when Sharda approached the vehicle and asked her to step outside the SUV.
"He was asking me what I'd be willing to do to not be arrested," she stated in court.
The first police officer of Indian descent on the Worchester, Massachusetts's police force, Sharda was removed from service in September 2014 and was charged with sexual assault, open and gross lewdness, witness intimidation and larceny.
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