Sunday, January 2, 2011

[ZESTCaste] Dalit girl rape case: Maya suspends tainted MLA

 

http://www.timesnow.tv/Dalit-girl-rape-case-Maya-suspends-tainted-MLA/articleshow/4361767.cms

Dalit girl rape case: Maya suspends tainted MLA
2 Jan 2011, 1402 hrs IST, AGENCIES
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on Sunday (January 2) finally
took some action against BSP MLA Purshottam Narain Dwivedi, who
allegedly raped a Dalit girl. Maya suspended the 'rape tainted' MLA
today till the CBI-CID conducts its probe.

Yesterday, Mayawati ordered a Crime Branch-Crime Investigation
Department (CB-CID) probe into the rape of a girl, belonging to a
backward caste allegedly by the BSP MLA and his supporters.

Congress has alleged the involvement of a BSP MLA and his associates
in the rape of the 17-year-old girl and demanded the immediate arrest
of the culprits and that Chief Minister Mayawati order a high-level
judicial inquiry into the matter.

The CM has directed the probe to reach Banda by Sunday morning and
start the investigation.

The National Commission for Scheduled Caste (NSCS) has, meanwhile,
sought a report from the state government on the rape of the girl and
her arrest on theft charges in Banda district. The NSCS has sought a
detailed report from the state government and the district level
official on rape of a backward class girl and later her arrest on
theft charges, Chairman of NCSC P L Punia said.

"A most backward minor girl was raped by BSP MLA Purshottam Narain
Dwivedi and his associates in Banda and was later lodged in jail on
charges of stealing the legislator's licensed pistol and Rs five
thousand," Congress state president Rita Bahuguna Joshi had said on
Friday.

She alleged that the girl has been framed by the local police to save
the ruling party MLA and sent to jail, where no one was allowed to
meet her.

BJP state president Surya Pratap Shahi also visited Banda and
announced to launch an agitation.

On the directives of the Banda district administration a panel of
three doctors, including two lady doctors, conducted the medical
examination of the girl in the jail, where she is presently lodged on
theft charges and submitted it to the Superintendent of Police,
sources said.

The order for conducting the examination was issued after the SP, Anil
Das talked to the girl for over five hours in jail during which she
levelled the charges against the MLA and his supporters, sources said.

Achche Lal, the father of the girl, who is a farmer, said she had gone
to her maternal home in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh a few months
ago from where she had gone missing.

On December 7, he received a call informing him that his daughter was
in Pathra village in Banda and he sought the MLA's help in tracing
her.

After she was recovered, the girl was taken to the MLA's house for
safety, from where she allegedly escaped after stealing a mobile phone
and cash on December 12 and was arrested two days later on the FIR of
the MLA.

It was when she was produced before the court on December 24 that she
told her brother she had been raped at the MLA's house.

The father however has denied the theft charges.

On the other hand MLA claimed that the charges were politically motivated.

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