Lucknow: Opposition parties today demanded immediate suspension of Banda SP Anil Das who, they alleged, played a role in threatening the 17-year-old rape victim, and charged the Mayawati government w

The Supreme Court on Friday sought a response from the Uttar Pradesh government and the CBI on a plea for a judicial probe into the alleged rape of a Dalit girl by Banda legislator Purushottam Naresh Dwivedi.

Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister has now gone all out against the accused, BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi, in the Banda Dalit girl rape case.

Dwiwedi is currently under suspension following

Rape accused BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi has threatened to take revenge from Opposition parties for implicating him in a "false case." "Un partiyon se badla liya jayega jinhone hame iss case mein phansaya hai" (Revenge will be taken with the parties, which have got me framed in the fake case), the BSP MLA told reporters before entering the Banda district jail last night.

New Delhi: A committee constituted by the Women and Child Development Ministry today sought a CBI probe into the Banda rape case allegedly involving an Uttar Pradesh MLA.

After receiving the report

Lucknow: BSP MLA Purshottam Dwivedi, accused of raping a minor dalit girl, was arrested in Banda.

Dwivedi had got the girl arrested on a charge of theft after she lodged the rape complaint last month