Suspended Maharashtra Deputy Inspector General of Police Sunil Paraskar, accused of molesting and raping a city-based model, was today discharged by a sessions court in Mumbai..


"The court has discharged Paraskar from the (2014) case," said Special Public Prosecutor Pradeep Gharat. Gharat also said that he will file an appeal in the Bombay High Court, challenging the order.


The IPS officer had moved the discharge plea after the Mumbai police filed a 724-page charge sheet against him in May this year. Last year in July 2014, a first information report (FIR) was registered against Paraskar by the suburban Malwani police under sections 376(2) (rape by a police officer), 376 C (intercourse by Superintendent of Jail, remand home, etc) and 354(D) (stalking) of Indian Penal Code.


The complainant, a 25-year-old model, had alleged that Paraskar (57) molested and sexually assaulted her on two occasions in December 2013.
According to her, she had met Paraskar first in 2012, when he was an Additional Commissioner of Police, regarding a case.