UP: Sitapur Congress MP booked for rape on aide’s complaint

“The aesculapian introspection of the pistillate has been conducted. Her connection has been recorded earlier a magistrate. She has besides submitted physics grounds and telephone recordings to enactment her claims. The probe is on. No arrests person been made truthful far, but information has been provided to the woman. A constabulary squad visited the MP’s residence present today, but helium was not present,” Superintendent of Police (Sitapur) Chakresh Mishra said.

The MP has been booked nether BNS sections 64 (rape), 351 (3) (criminal intimidation), and 127 (2) (wrongful confinement), said police.

According to police, the pistillate filed a ailment against the MP connected January 15. She alleged that successful 2018 she came successful interaction with Rathor, past a BJP MLA, who offered her governmental mentorship. After immoderate time, she said, Rathore appointed her arsenic the president of Talik Mahasabha’s territory women unit. In March 2020, erstwhile she visited his location astatine his invitation, Rathor allegedly locked her wrong and sexually assaulted her. When she resisted, helium allegedly utilized affectional blackmail, citing his governmental power and promising to divorcement his woman to wed her. She besides claimed that helium assured her of governmental advancement, which aboriginal turned retired to beryllium a mendacious promise.

“Using these tactics, helium established carnal relations with maine aggregate times,” the complainant stated, adding that societal pressures forced her to stay silent.

After Rathor won the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and became an MP, helium allegedly summoned her to his location connected the greeting of August 24.

She alleged that Rathor forced her to motion blank papers and threatened to defame her if she refused. “When I resisted, helium threatened to harm my beingness and property,” she told the police. The complainant further alleged that since then, Rathor has been “exploiting and defaming” her some straight and indirectly, causing her household to unrecorded successful changeless fear.

Rathor, who joined the Congress successful 2023, defeated BJP’s Rajesh Verma successful past year’s Lok Sabha elections. The MP could not beryllium contacted.