Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s under-fire pacer Yash Dayal has been accused of raping a minor in an FIR registered towards him by Jaipur Police.
The 27-year-old cricketer from Uttar Pradesh is already going through expenses of sexual exploitation from a girl in Ghaziabad who has alleged that Dayal abused her after promising to marry her throughout a five-year relationship.
SHO of Jaipur’s Sanganer Sadar police station Anil Jaiman stated that the newest FIR was registered on Wednesday.
“FIR was registered against Yash Dayal for rape under relevant sections of POCSO (Protection of Children from Sexual Offences) act and the BNS (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita),” he stated in Jaipur on Friday (July 25, 2025).
According to Jaiman, the sufferer has alleged that the participant raped her first in 2023 when she was 17 and the same assault occurred in April this yr at a lodge in Sitapura space.
“She alleged that the cricketer had promised help and support in her career. He contacted her in April this year when he was in Jaipur for IPL and called her to the hotel where he allegedly raped her again,” the SHO stated, including that the matter was beneath investigation.
The participant has not issued any assertion on both of the 2 circumstances to date.
Dayal, a medium pacer, is a fairly well-known bowler in the Indian home circuit. He made his debut for Uttar Pradesh in 2018 and has since performed 27 first-class video games, claiming 84 wickets. He has appeared in 71 T20 matches which have yielded 66 scalps.
Dayal began his IPL profession with the Gujarat Titans in 2022 earlier than transferring to RCB, which purchased him for ₹5 crore in the 2024 gamers’ public sale. He was retained by the Bengaluru staff for this yr’s season too and was a key member of the trophy-winning outfit beneath Rajat Patidar.
