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Rajat Sharda charged, placed on administrative leave
WORCESTER, Mass. — A Worcester police officer has been charged with aggravated rape, the department said Tuesday.
According to court records, in August 2013 Officer Rajat Sharda allegedly asked a woman what she would do to avoid being arrested, the Telegram.com reported.
The woman filed a formal complaint with police at the time and an investigation had been ongoing since then, the department said.
The woman told investigators that the officer exposed himself to her and raped her digitally, according to court records cited by Telegram. com, and threatened her to keep her quiet.
The woman told police that Sharda said she “better not talk about this and if she did, he would find her, her children and her family,” according to the records.
Sharda, who had been on restricted duty during the investigation, was charged with aggravated rape, open and gross lewdness and intimidation of a witness.
His attorney called the charges “outrageous.”
Sharda was placed on administrative leave and released on $7,540 cash bail.
Patrick Durocher charged with aggravated rape, assault, kidnapping

NORTHAMPTON, Mass. —A Longmeadow teenager is facing additional charges in connection with a rape at the University of Massachusetts.
Patrick Durocher pleaded not guilty Thursday in Hampshire Superior Court to charges of aggravated rape, aggravated assault and battery and kidnapping.
Durocher had been arraigned only on the aggravated rape charge in district court.
Prosecutors say the 18-year-old Durocher choked and raped the woman he did not know outside on the Amherst campus on Sept. 2. He and the women were students.
School officials say he is no longer enrolled.
He is free on $10,000 bail with GPS monitoring and other conditions.
Neither he nor his lawyer commented.