India, Oct. 23 -- An Odisha Police inspector has been arrested on charges of sexually exploiting a woman sub-inspector (SI) after allegedly assuring her of marriage.

Yashobant Acharya - a 2017-batch officer recently promoted as Inspector in-charge (IIC) and posted in Kalahandi - had reportedly been in a relationship with the woman officer for nearly eight years.

According to the complaint, Acharya and the woman SI got together around 2017 and had even visited her home with a marriage proposal. Their relationship grew stronger when she was posted at Kendrapara Town police station in 2018, when he allegedly promised to marry her.

Over the years, the two were allegedly also in a live-in relationship while the woman officer was posted in G...