A Nigerian national has been arrested in India over allegations of raping a 25-year-old Kenyan woman for a period of three months.
According to Nation, the woman is a student at a university in Noida, while the Nigerian had dropped out of campus in the same region.
“The complainant has alleged that she was raped for at least three months by the accused and she was given sedatives,” said a police officer.
According to Sudhir Kumar Tyagi, SHO Kasna police station, the two met in the institution.
“The accused was pursuing a B.Tech program and the woman studied a program in nursing. The accused dropped his studies over some personal issues and started living in Sector C-5 in Greater Noida. The woman also started living with him since May 2016,” he said.
It is alleged that their relation turned sour after the Kenyan woman got pregnant before filing a complaint with the police accusing her partner of rape.
Authorities further added that the accused visa had expired and he was living in the country illegally.