Lokmanya Tilak’s descendant Rohit Tilak booked for rape

Pune, 18th July 2017: Congress leader Rohit Tilak, who is the great-grandson of Bal Gangadhar Tilak, was booked by Pune city police for allegedly raping a woman lawyer.

The FIR in this regard was registered against him late Monday night at Vishrambaug police station. Rohit Tilak is the national coordinator of Indian Youth Congress.

Rohit (38) is grandson of late Jayantrao Tilak, who was a senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament. His father Deepak Tilak is the current vice Chancellor of the Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth.

As per the FIR, the 40 year old woman lawyer and accused came to each other few years and when she was fighting a case related to the educational institute in the Bombay High Court. They used to go together.

“Later they got into a relationship. The woman had alleged that Tilak repeatedly raped her on the pretext of marrying her. He also allegedly forced her for unnatural sex,” said a police officer.

The police have booked him for offences under sections 376 (rape), 377 (unnatural offences), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (insult), 506 (criminal intimidation), 507 (criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication) of the Indian Penal Code.

Tilak had unsuccessfully contested the 2014 Maharashtra Assembly polls from the Kasba Peth seat in Pune against the BJP’s Girish Bapat.

UPDATE: The court has discharged Rohit Tilak from the case on 14th September 2022.