Engineer held at Delhi airport for ‘raping’ techie | India News – Times of India

KOLKATA: A California-based engineer, who hails from Midnapore in Bengal, was stopped from boarding an international flight in Delhi and arrested on charges of raping a software engineer in a Kolkata hotel, reports Dwaipayan Ghosh.
The action followed a lookout notice issued against him in the rape case registered two years ago. Accused Arghya Pattanayak was detained by immigration authorities at IGI airport on Friday and handed over to Delhi police, who informed their Kolkata counterparts.
He was brought to Kolkata Sunday on transit remand and produced in court, which remanded him in police custody for 5 days. During questioning, accused denied the rape charges and claimed relation with the woman was consensual.