A woman lieutenant-colonel posted in Jammu and Kashmir has lodged a rape case against her colleague of the same rank and his mother with Cantonment police station in Varanasi. She has alleged that the accused promised to marry her and had unnatural sex with her on many occasions. He also made a video of her and blackmailed her, the woman officer claimed. She has also accused the officer and his mother of demanding Rs 80 lakh as dowry. ACP (Cantt) Atul Anjan Tripathi said ‘On the basis of the complaint of the woman army officer, a named FIR was lodged against the accused and his mother. Investigation in this matter has started, apart from initiating the process of medical examination of the complainant, recording her statement, and others, he said.