UP BJP MLA Gets Clean Chit In Gangrape Case, Nephew Arrested

Bhadohi (UP):

Police on Saturday gave a blank chit to native BJP MLA Ravindra Nath Tripathi in a gangrape case as “no proof” was once discovered towards him and arrested his nephew, officers mentioned.

5 others, who had additionally been named in an FIR lodged on Wednesday, had been additionally absolved of rape fees via the district police, they mentioned.

The FIR was once lodged towards Ravindra Nath Tripathi and his relatives on a criticism via a 40-year-old lady who had alleged that that they had raped her in 2017.

“All over the investigation, no proof was once discovered towards the Bhadohi MLA and 5 others. They’ve been given a blank chit,” Senior police officer Ram Badan Singh advised newspersons.

“Ravindra Nath Tripathi’s nephew Sandeep Tiwari has been arrested on a price of rape,” he mentioned.

Any other member of the circle of relatives, Neetesh, who were named within the FIR, has been booked for manhandling and abusing the lady, he added.

The officer mentioned that once the lady’s observation was once recorded ahead of a Justice of the Peace, the probe was once passed over to a two-member crew, together with the Gulafsha girls’s police station in-charge.

The crew failed to search out any proof to corroborate her fees, Ram Badan Singh mentioned.

The girl additionally refused to go through a scientific exam, he added.

The complainant, a widow, had alleged that she was once first raped via Tiwari in 2016. She mentioned she didn’t resort a criticism again then as Tiwari had promised to marry her, Ram Badan Singh had mentioned on Wednesday.

She alleged that within the run-up to the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Meeting polls, she was once stored at a lodge for a month via Tiwari. The entire seven accused would seek advice from the lodge and many times rape her, he had mentioned.

She additionally claimed that after she were given pregnant, she was once compelled to go through an abortion, the officer had mentioned.