Etawah rape case: BSP MLA, 5 more booked
A local court here on Thursday directed the district police to register criminal cases against five people, including a ruling Bahujan Samaj Party legislator, for their involvement in the rape of a school teacher followed by suicide of her husband. Among others to be booked in the case were two local police sub inspectors, the principal of a local school and the rape victim’s father-in-law and sister-in-law. While directing the Etawah police to book MLA Shiv Pratap Yadav for criminal conspiracy under
Section 120 B of IPC, chief judicial magistrate Zaigabuddin charged two local police subinspectors Rakesh Bharti and Gur Prasad Bharti with abetment to commit suicide.
While school principal Vinod Awasthi was charged for raping his school teacher, her father-in-law and sister-in-law were booked for abetting the rape as well as her husband’s suicide. Interestingly, the state government had given a clean chit to the ruling party MLA.
A top police officer had specially held a press conference in Lucknow last week to claim that the MLA had nothing whatsoever to do with the rape or suicide. However, the chief judicial magistrate saw reason to get an FIR lodged against him too. According to the complaint, sought to be repeatedly lodged by the school teacher that she was raped by her school principal Vinod Awasthi.
She accused her deceased husband, father-in-law and sister-in-law of forcing her into the principal’s trap.
—IANS
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