In a shocking case, a Bharatiya Janata Party leader, Lal Singh, who is also block pramukh of Bah in Khurja, was arrested by the Agra police allegedly for gang-raping a girl and later threatening her with dire consequences.
The cops are now making efforts to arrest the other accused also who are allegedly absconding after learning that a case has been registered against them.
Singh was sent to jail on Tuesday.
The victim was allegedly gang-raped in a hotel in Agra.
According to the complaint filed by the victim, she had received a call from an unknown number two months ago and the caller insisted on becoming her friend. He introduced himself as block pramukh Lal Singh and assured her a job as an ASHA worker. He called her to Agra on December 21 and took her to a farm house, where he along with his two friends, Jitendra and Dev, gang-raped her. When the woman raised an alarm and said that she would file a police complaint against them, Singh threatened her with dire consequences.
The girl alleged that they recorded a video of the rape and threatened to make it viral if she did not cooperate with them. The victim girl told the police that the block chief threatened her when she tried to file a complaint of rape in the farm house. She said that the BJP leader asked her to come and meet him in Agra and when she refused, he sent her objectionable videos and threatened to make them public if she did not contact him.
On Sunday, Lal Singh and two of his accomplices took her to a hotel near Vishal Megamart on Fatehabad road and gang-raped her. She also disclosed that the accused were taking her to some other place on a car and when she objected, she was thrown out of the vehicle in which she was injured.
However, when the police asked the victim girl for information about the hotel, she could not tell anything so the police took her to Fatehabad road and in the night in search of the hotel. The cops got success as they reached Hotel Amar Yatri Niwas. The victim claimed that it was same hotel where she was gang-raped and later thrown out of the car after giving her life threats.
The cops subsequently checked the visitors’ register and found a room booked in Lal Singh’s name. The CCTV footage of the hotel also confirmed that Lal Singh and his accomplice were carrying the girl inside.
Circle Officer of Sadar Rajiv Kumar said that many evidence had been found in the investigation. He said the police had come to know about the conversation of both in the call details. Because of this, the mobile of Lal Singh was also seized.
The statement of the victim girl has been recorded. The girl has spoken about threats to her of making her obscene video viral. The video will be extracted from the mobile of the accused. For this the help of Forensic Science Laboratory will be taken.
The girl's medical examination has been done and its report is awaited.