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

Accused of raping a 17-year-old tribal girl from Banda, ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwivedi Thursday got his wife Asha Dwivedi to come to his rescue. Short of terming him as "impotent", she said everything to claim he was "innocent." "My husband is 50 years old with acute diabetes and is not capable of committing rape," Asha told a press conference here on Thursday.

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.