Jaipur: Left-arm pacer Yash Dayal, who was a regular member of Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s maiden IPL triumph recently, has landed in more trouble.
An FIR has been registered against the 27-year-old Dayal at Jaipur’s Sanganer police station for allegedly raping a girl over a period of two years while emotionally blackmailing her.
As per the FIR, which has been accessed by NDTV, Dayal lured a young female cricketer with promises of facilitating a career in the game, and invited her to a hotel in Sitapura, where the first sexual assault took place. The girl was 17 years old at that time, and hence police registered the case under Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
This comes weeks after another FIR was lodged against Dayal at Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad district, under Section 69 (sexual intercourse by employing deceitful means etc.) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The complainant in that case accused Dayal — who was part of the Team India squad for the home Test series against Bangladesh last year — of sexually exploiting her on the pretext of marriage.
The Allahabad High Court recently stayed Dayal’s arrest in connection with the Ghaziabad case.
A bench comprising Justices Siddhartha Varma and Anil Kumar passed the order on Dayal’s petition challenging the FIR. The court directed the state counsel to file a counter affidavit and also issued notice to the complainant to file her counter in the matter.
The complaint was submitted on June 21, via the chief minister’s online grievance portal (IGRS).