Varanasi: Woman complainant dies in rape case against jailed BSP MP Atul Rai Eight days after setting themselves on fire in front of the Supreme Court, the troubles of the accused have increased at New Delhi’s RML Hospital on Tuesday.
“The chances of conviction for the accused in the rape case have increased after the death of complainant and key witness Suraj Rai (name changed), who also set himself on fire along with the complainant and died on August 21 Went. As both had given evidence before the MP-MLA Court,” said Prayagraj, Advocate (criminal) for the District Govt. Gulab Chandra Agrahari, told TOI on Tuesday.
In this case, the DGC (criminal), who is monitoring the prosecution in the MP-MLA court, also provided the current status of the case against the BSP MP from Ghosi, who is lodged in Naini jail.
He said, ‘Apart from the complainant and Suraj, the statements of other witnesses including the former station in-charge of the Lanka police station in Varanasi Bharat Bhushan Tiwari, Investigating Officer and Sub-Inspector RC Pandey, Head Constable Raghav Rai, Dr Rashmi Gupta, Constable Preeti Rawat, Amit Srivastava and Shiv Kumar Gaur, the security guards of the apartment where the alleged incident took place, have already lodged before the MP. . -MLA Court.”
“Now, the process of recording the statement of the accused has to take place in the MP-MLA court,” he said.
The complainant and Suraj had set themselves on fire outside the Supreme Court on August 16 after leveling serious allegations against the police and other officials, including the DIG. Amit Pathak, retired IG Amitabh Thakur and the judge who conspired against him.
The incident resulted in massive action and former SSP of Varanasi Amit Pathak was attached to the DGP headquarters by the state home department.
Inspector Rakesh Singh and Sub-Inspector Girijashankar Yadav, in-charge of the Cantonment police station in Varanasi, were suspended and the state government constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the self-immolation case.
Former circle officer Bhelupur Amresh Singh Baghel was suspended by the state government on December 30, 2020, for laxity in the investigation in the rape case after the leak of parts of his investigation report, implicating the BSP MP for a conspiracy. Shown as a victim. jailed gangster
It is alleged that on 7 March 2018, Atul Rai had called and raped her in his apartment, the woman had filed a case of rape against him at the Lanka police station on 1 May 2019.
Atul Rai, who filed his nomination as a BSP candidate from the Ghosi parliamentary seat, won the election as a fugitive and later surrendered before the court on June 22, 2019 and is in jail since then.
Police had filed a charge sheet against Rai and the matter was being heard in the MP-MLA court in Prayagraj.
Atul Rai’s brother Pawan Kumar had filed a complaint with the Cantonment police station in Varanasi in November 2020, accusing the woman of forging her date of birth in the documents related to the rape complaint. a non bailable warrant In this case, the Varanasi court had issued a case against the woman and her partner in the first week of August.
Earlier, the complainant had filed another case against the jailed MP and his accomplice Sudhir Singh with the Lanka Police in December 2020, accusing both of defaming him through propaganda on social media.
Meanwhile, the grandfather of the complainant in his village in Narhi area of Ballia district had no information about his death in Delhi till late Tuesday evening as he said that he or his family members had not received any call from his mother. , who was living in Delhi.
He said that the complainant had not gone to her native village for the last two years after registering the case. “The police had once reached here to confirm whether she belonged to the same place. But, without explaining the purpose of their visit, the police returned,” he said.
“The chances of conviction for the accused in the rape case have increased after the death of complainant and key witness Suraj Rai (name changed), who also set himself on fire along with the complainant and died on August 21 Went. As both had given evidence before the MP-MLA Court,” said Prayagraj, Advocate (criminal) for the District Govt. Gulab Chandra Agrahari, told TOI on Tuesday.
In this case, the DGC (criminal), who is monitoring the prosecution in the MP-MLA court, also provided the current status of the case against the BSP MP from Ghosi, who is lodged in Naini jail.
He said, ‘Apart from the complainant and Suraj, the statements of other witnesses including the former station in-charge of the Lanka police station in Varanasi Bharat Bhushan Tiwari, Investigating Officer and Sub-Inspector RC Pandey, Head Constable Raghav Rai, Dr Rashmi Gupta, Constable Preeti Rawat, Amit Srivastava and Shiv Kumar Gaur, the security guards of the apartment where the alleged incident took place, have already lodged before the MP. . -MLA Court.”
“Now, the process of recording the statement of the accused has to take place in the MP-MLA court,” he said.
The complainant and Suraj had set themselves on fire outside the Supreme Court on August 16 after leveling serious allegations against the police and other officials, including the DIG. Amit Pathak, retired IG Amitabh Thakur and the judge who conspired against him.
The incident resulted in massive action and former SSP of Varanasi Amit Pathak was attached to the DGP headquarters by the state home department.
Inspector Rakesh Singh and Sub-Inspector Girijashankar Yadav, in-charge of the Cantonment police station in Varanasi, were suspended and the state government constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the self-immolation case.
Former circle officer Bhelupur Amresh Singh Baghel was suspended by the state government on December 30, 2020, for laxity in the investigation in the rape case after the leak of parts of his investigation report, implicating the BSP MP for a conspiracy. Shown as a victim. jailed gangster
It is alleged that on 7 March 2018, Atul Rai had called and raped her in his apartment, the woman had filed a case of rape against him at the Lanka police station on 1 May 2019.
Atul Rai, who filed his nomination as a BSP candidate from the Ghosi parliamentary seat, won the election as a fugitive and later surrendered before the court on June 22, 2019 and is in jail since then.
Police had filed a charge sheet against Rai and the matter was being heard in the MP-MLA court in Prayagraj.
Atul Rai’s brother Pawan Kumar had filed a complaint with the Cantonment police station in Varanasi in November 2020, accusing the woman of forging her date of birth in the documents related to the rape complaint. a non bailable warrant In this case, the Varanasi court had issued a case against the woman and her partner in the first week of August.
Earlier, the complainant had filed another case against the jailed MP and his accomplice Sudhir Singh with the Lanka Police in December 2020, accusing both of defaming him through propaganda on social media.
Meanwhile, the grandfather of the complainant in his village in Narhi area of Ballia district had no information about his death in Delhi till late Tuesday evening as he said that he or his family members had not received any call from his mother. , who was living in Delhi.
He said that the complainant had not gone to her native village for the last two years after registering the case. “The police had once reached here to confirm whether she belonged to the same place. But, without explaining the purpose of their visit, the police returned,” he said.
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