New Delhi, July 4 -- In an unnerving and a surprising twist in the Pune rape case, the police on Friday said that the suspect they had detained earlier in the day is actually the woman's friend.

The 22-year-old techie had claimed that a stranger, who had posed as a delivery agent, entered her flat on Wednesday evening and allegedly raped her. She had also told cops that the accused had left a selfie on her phone with a warning against informing anyone of the incident.

According to a PTI report, the police, however, said that the man was in fact the woman's friend, it was the woman who had clicked a selfie with him, and then typed a threatening message in her phone.

"They know each other for a couple of years and belong to the same comm...