Vadodara: Police arrested Dilip Gohil, the compounder who used to work at the clinic of Dr Pratik Joshi in Angadh village near the city, late on Sunday night. Joshi and Gohil were booked at Nandesari police station on Sunday for rape, blackmailing, and for the violation of the Information Technology Act. Several videos of Joshi getting intimate with multiple women — said to be his patients — had gone viral on Saturday.Police picked up Gohil, who lives in Angadh, on Sunday for questioning and formally arrested him later. According to police sources, Gohil admitted recording the videos on his mobile phone. He told the cops that he had been doing that because Joshi had been exploiting the women of the village. However, the complainant on Sunday had told the police that Gohil, after recording the video, started blackmailing her. She said he had threatened the rape survivor that he would circulate the video if she did not come to Joshi’s clinic whenever he called her.Police officials said that Gohil had sent the videos to four of his friends in the village. These four later widely circulated the videos among the residents of the village, Gohil admitted in his statement. “We are searching for these four persons. If necessary, we will make them co-accused in the case,” said J K Patel, police inspector, Nandesari police station.Meanwhile, on Monday, police searched Joshi’s clinic which has been closed for three months. Patel said that they have found several medicines which have been sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory. Joshi’s house in Gotri was locked. Police have formed four teams to find him.

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