Udaipur: Five, including Congress MLA’s son, were booked on March 26 under for gang-raping a minor girl in Rajasthan’s Dausa district, PTI reported, citing police. Almost a year after a 15-year-old girl was raped, blackmailed and extorted, a case has been filed by her family against five persons including the 39-year-old son of Johari Lal Meena, the Congress MLA from Rajgarh constituency in Alwar. The girl’s uncle lodged a complaint against five persons at Mandawar.
Police identified the key accused as Deepak Meena, son of Johari Lal Meena. Station house officer Nathu Lal said that the police have lodged a case based on the complaint filed by the girl’s family members. “A case has been registered against three named accused, including Rajgarh MLA’s son Deepak Meena,” Lal said, according to PTI. “Two others have also been booked for gang rape and other sections of the Indian Penal Code.”
Lal said that one of the accused has been identified as Vivek Sharma. He has also been booked for extorting Rs 15 lakh and jewelry from the girl. He had given her threat of uploading her rape video on social media.
“On February 24, 2021, Vivek took her to a hotel under Mandawar police station area where she was drugged. Later the accused and others including Netram Samleti, Deepak Meena, the son of Rajgarh MLA, and two others gangraped her and also clicked her pictures and videos,” SHO said.
The SHO said, “Later, all the accused including Vivek asked the girl to bring the jewelry of her mother or else videos of the rape would be made public. She was raped on other occasions at the same hotel. Thereafter in May, 2021, Vivek asked her to pay Rs 15. 41 lakh, which was meant for a family marriage of the girl. In this regard, a case of theft was also been lodged against Vivek at Raini police station in Alwar. Finally, the girl narrated her plight and her uncle lodged a case under Section 376D (gangrape), 384 (extortion) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC under Sections 3, 4, 6 and 6 of POCSO Act and 66D of IT Act. Since the girl is Dalit, a case under appropriate sections of SC/ST Atrocities Prevention Act has been slapped.”
BJP president Satish Poonia expressing shock over the incident said, “Rajasthan is ashamed again due to the misdeeds of the Congress MLA’s son. It appears that there is no law and order in Rajasthan and it is an era of goons and rapists.”
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