London: An Indian man, who fled to India in 2017 after a sexual assault on a woman in the UK, has been sentenced to seven years imprisonment for the rape.Ajay Rana, 35, was found guilty of raping the woman in the back of his housemates car in the town of Lowestoft in Suffolk, eastern England, after offering her a lift on December, 9, 2017.He then fled to India on December 13 claiming he was visiting his mother who was ill. He was sentenced at Ipswich Crown Court in Suffolk after being found guilty of rape following a two-week trial and was also ordered to sign the sex offenders register indefinitely."The police investigation commenced following a calculated and sustained attack committed on an innocent victim, who has been left traumatised by the callous actions of this offender," said Detective Chief Superintendent Eamonn Bridger, the Senior Investigating Officer for Suffolk Police."This was a complicated investigation that was progressed with great haste despite the challenges presented by an offender who fled the country after the attack.

The investigation team worked tirelessly over many months to ensure the individual did not escape justice and I am proud of the work they produced to reach the right outcome for the victim," Eamonn Bridger said.By the time UK police identified him as a suspect in the days after the attack, having traced the vehicle he was driving during the attack, Ajay Rana had China Wholesale PPR FITTING Suppliers fled to India.Once he was traced to Spain, he was detained by the Spanish police in Bilbao last October on a European Arrest Warrant and was extradited to the UK in November last year after approval from the Spanish courts.During the trial, it emerged that the victim - a woman aged in her 30s - was offered a lift by Ajay Rana, saying it was cold and he had just given a lift to two other people, and she accepted.He stopped the car further down and raped the victim in the vehicle. She then managed to get out of the car and ran away to a friends house nearby to get help, following which the police were called.

A major investigation was launched and officers pursued a number of lines of enquiry, including forensic work, along with CCTV and house-to-house enquiries, Suffolk Police said.In a statement read to the court, the victim said the attack "will haunt me for the rest of my life".The victim said she had been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, had begun self-harming and suffered regular flashbacks, despite receiving counselling."I am so angry that he has done this to me, and [the case] brings it all flooding back and the emotions hit me like a roller coaster," she said.Ajay Ranas car was traced and found to be registered to one of his housemates and he was a named driver on the insurance.On attending Ajay Ranas home address and speaking with friends of the suspect, officers were told that he had left for London, saying that he had to go to India as his mother was ill.Police officers located some of Ajay Ranas earphones that he had left behind and were then able to match DNA from them with swabs taken from the victim.

A CCTV analysis was able to locate Ajay Ranas car driving the route through the town as described by the victim and place him in the relevant locations, at times corresponding to when the victim first got into his car and when the attack occurred.Officers from Suffolk Police then began proceedings to extradite Ajay Rana from India and also issued a European Arrest Warrant, which would allow for him to be detained if he attempted to enter another European Union (EU) member state and he was ultimately arrested in Spain and extradited.Ajay Rana has been remanded in custody in the UK since November last year and will now serve a seven-year sentence at the end of which he is expected to be deported back to India."The criminal justice process is never easy for victims of crime, but the victim in this case has shown bravery throughout and continues to be supported by officers and support agencies. I hope that today will bring some kind of closure and allow her to move forward positively in her life," said Chief Superintendent Eamonn Bridger."Whilst attacks of this nature are rare and Suffolk remains a safe county to live in, this is a further example where the Constabulary has risen to the challenges of modern policing to continue to deliver a highly tenacious and professional service for the public it serves," Bridger said.

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VMate, the trending short video platform today handed over its grand prize "Maruti Suzuki Alto” to Sangeeta Navik, a small-town housewife hailing from Jaunpur, UP. Sangeeta started using VMate for entertainment purposes but soon realized the potential of the app and started sharing her own videos. While participating in VMate’s "Roshan Karo India” Diwali Campaign little did she know that soon her talent will be recognized and her dream of reaching millions through her dancing skills will be a reality. VMate recently concluded its three-week-long Diwali Campaign and announced Sangeeta Navik as the winner for its grand prize along with lakhs of users who won gifts ranging from guaranteed vouchers, prize money, gold coins, smartphones, TVs and Honda Activa. As the VMate team visited Jaunpur to deliver the car to Navik; the winners family, neighbours and others in the locality received the team and the car with a grand ceremony. Overwhelmed with the achievement, the family welcomed the car as a new family member and prayed for its long life.

Sangeeta has now become one of the few car owners in her locality but the first one to have won a car basis sheer determination and talent. Sangeeta is a housewife living in an inverter with dual digital display 8-members family and her husband is a contractor. She has a keen interest in dancing and acting but due to limited resources, she never got an opportunity to take professional training. However, when she started using VMate in March 2019 she started to focus on her gift and captured her raw skills in VMate videos to entertain others.VMate’s "Roshan Karo India" campaign received enthusiastic participation from Pan-India users with more than 7 million people joining the contest and creating more than 1.5 million videos.

VMate users generated more than 10 hashtags during the campaign, garnering exposure of 1.5 billion.On the occasion of winning the car, Ms. Sangeeta Navik said "I couldn’t believe at the beginning as I never thought I could win such a prize basis my participation. VMate has completely changed my life as it has given me the confidence to explore my talent and realize my full potential. I could never imagine such luxuries in our life as I just wanted a good house for me and my family. I am very thankful to my husband and family members who supported me from the beginning and helped me show my talent.”

On successful conclusion of VMate Diwali Campaign, Ms. Nisha Pokhriyal, Associate Director- VMate, said, "We are happy to announce that Sangeeta Navik won the highest reward of the campaign. I am sure her success story will inspire talented people with limited resources, to embrace new opportunities provided by VMate.

Our platform provides an opportunity for any user to achieve growth and fame without limitations.”VMate empowers users to explore and exhibit their video creation and editing skills through user-friendly in-app features. Be it a professional, a novice or someone who has never tried hands at video creation, VMate is a platform for all to express and realize their dreams. The 3 weeks long Diwali campaign drew users to create engaging music videos by leveraging unique and easy-to-use video editing features of the app to lighten up different Indian states.VMate is already a popular platform in regional markets, where users from various towns cities are grabbing opportunities to win prizes and earn fame. Recently, by leveraging VMates collaboration with Nach Baliye Season 9, one of the VMate users grabbed an opportunity to get featured on the national television as he danced with celebrities during the popular dance reality show. VMate’s campaigns during festivals and days of national importance are emerging as important social media initiatives attracting significant traction from their users and content creators.

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