Leading TV channel journalist booked for rape in Delhi

Delhi Police have registered a case against a leading TV channel journalist after a complaint of rape by a woman, a senior Delhi Police officer said on Saturday night.

Additional Commissioner of Police (New Delhi) BK Singh said the woman told them that she met the journalist in 2016 and he offered her a job in the channel which she joined in April 2017.

"She alleged that she was raped by the man on June 9 last year at his residence on the pretext of marriage and several times later on," the officer said.

The woman claimed that in October last year she learned that the man was already married and had two children, Singh said.

She filed a complaint on February 13 and a case was registered on Saturday night at the Tughlak Road Police Station, the officer said.

Her statement was recorded before a magistrate but no arrest has been made.