Police have launched a hunt for a man from Mumbra town who allegedly raped a 22-year-old woman from the same locality and later threatened to make public her nude pictures.
Uman Asman Shaikh forged friendship with the victim and promised to marry her. He repeatedly raped the woman and later abandoned her, Inspector Usha Suradkar of Mumbra Police Station said today.
When the woman insisted on marriage, the 29-year-old, a driver by profession, threatened to make public her nude pictures taken by him on his mobile phone, she said.
The girl, fed up with Shaikh's threats over the pictures, lodged a police complaint yesterday.
The entire incident happened between December 2013 and January-end, police said, adding a case of rape has been filed against the accused.
Shaikh works as a driver in Dubai and had come down here on a vacation.
