The city police on Tuesday wrote to the Mumbai police seeking details of a rape case registered by a model in Mumbai against Delhi-based pub owner Nitin Chawla three years ago.
The city police on Tuesday wrote to the Mumbai police seeking details of a rape case registered by a model in Mumbai against Delhi-based pub owner Nitin Chawla three years ago. Chawla’s late wife Priyanka’s family claimed that Nitin hid his past from them while marrying their daughter.
The police suspect that Nitin Chawla, who has been arrested for domestic violence and dowry death after his socialite wife allegedly committed suicide, hid the details of his life from her, including a rape case he was facing, when they married in January.
The police, which is digging into his background, have indicated that he may be slapped with a few other charges. The police has come across a rape case against Chawla (38) registered in Mumbai around three years ago which, the police suspect, Chawla had not mentioned to his wife Priyanka Kapoor (25) before marriage, a senior police official said on Tuesday. Kapoor’s relatives told the police that they learnt of the matter weeks after their marriage on January 6. The Delhi police has written to their counterparts in Mumbai seeking details on the progress of the case with regard to which Chawla had got bail from a city court there in 2014, the official said.
In the case, the complainant had told the police that in 2011 she met Chawla at a nightclub in Delhi, following which Chawla allegedly raped her over a period of time on the pretext of marriage, never disclosing his marital status until the complainant came to know about it on her own.
Chawla, who is suspected to have got the woman admitted to an institute in Mumbai, also allegedly forged her signature and issued cheques from her bank account. The Mumbai police is learnt to have registered a case on the basis of the complaint and arrested Chawla in 2013, the official said.
Thorough background details of an accused are necessary for filing a water-tight chargesheet in any case, he said. in the early hours of Saturday, socialite and entrepreneur Priyanka Kapoor was found dead at her apartment in south Delhi’s Defence Colony area. She allegedly hanged herself from a ceiling fan, leaving behind a suicide note.
Chawla married Kapoor on January 6, around a month after he divorced his first wife with whom he has a son (10) and a daughter (8).
It is also suspected that Chawla did not tell Priyanka about the custody of his son, which led to a dispute between the couple after their marriage.
The last dispute between Chawla and Kapoor is also suspected to have occurred because of the former’s son being home during Holi, the official said.
