Maharashtra Minister Denies Rape Fee, Hyperlinks It To “Courting”

Mumbai:

Maharashtra Minister Dhananjay Munde has denied allegations of rape by means of a lady, claiming he has been in a courting along with her sister for years. The allegations have landed him in an issue with the opposition BJP calling for his resignation.

An FIR or First Data Document has but to be filed at the lady’s grievance.

In a Fb put up, Dhananjay Munde, the state minister for social justice, mentioned he was once being blackmailed by means of the rape accuser and her sister. He mentioned that he had additionally filed a grievance with the police in November.

Mr Munde, 45, mentioned that he have been in a courting with the girl’s sister since 2003 and has two youngsters along with her. The connection was once additionally authorised by means of his circle of relatives, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief mentioned. “This topic was once identified to my circle of relatives, spouse and buddies. On this mutual courting, we had been blessed with a son and a daughter. My circle of relatives, spouse and my youngsters have additionally taken those children as circle of relatives and licensed,” he wrote, including, “This complete case has been created for blackmailing, false and defamation, so please do not consider such fees (sic)”.

After the minister’s Fb admission of his courting with the girl, the BJP’s girls’s wing wrote to Leader Minister Uddhav Thackeray and demanded his sacking.

The 37-year-old lady, an aspiring singer, mentioned she wrote to the Mumbai police commissioner on January 10, alleging that Mr Munde had again and again raped her in 2006. In a tweet tagging best NCP leaders together with Sharad Pawar, she claimed that she had approached the police previous however her grievance was once no longer authorised. She additionally asked lend a hand from former Leader Minister Devendra Fadnavis, alleging that her lifestyles was once underneath danger.

Mr Munde mentioned the girl’s allegations had been a part of a conspiracy in opposition to him. The alleged blackmail, he claimed, began in 2019 and he had since no longer simply long past to the police however had additionally asked the Bombay Prime Court docket to position on grasp any defamatory content material in opposition to him.

Senior Maharashtra BJP chief Kirit Somaiya mentioned Mr Munde “will have to keep out from Maharashtra Cupboard until He will get Blank (sic)”.

Mr Munde is the nephew of senior BJP chief and previous union minister Gopinath Munde, who died in a highway coincidence in 2014. He hand over the BJP in 2013 and joined the NCP over an intense contention with cousin Pankaja Munde, Gopinath Munde’s daughter.