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Rajasthan: Congress MLAโ€™s Son Among Five Arrested In Dausa Rape Case

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Udaipur: Five, including Congress MLAโ€™s son, were booked on March 26 under for gang-raping a minor girl in Rajasthanโ€™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 girlโ€™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 girlโ€™s family members. โ€œA case has been registered against three named accused, including Rajgarh MLAโ€™s son Deepak Meena,โ€ Lal said, according to PTI. โ€œTwo others have also been booked for gang rape and other sections of the Indian Penal Code.โ€

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. 

โ€œOn 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,โ€ SHO said.

The SHO said, โ€œLater, 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.โ€

BJP president Satish Poonia expressing shock over the incident said, โ€œRajasthan is ashamed again due to the misdeeds of the Congress MLAโ€™s son. It appears that there is no law and order in Rajasthan and it is an era of goons and rapists.โ€

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Wrong to say BJP neglected late Palghar MPโ€™s family: Chandrakant Patil

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Mumbai: Senior BJP leader Chandrakant Patil today said that the party leadership was looking into the issue of the family of late Palghar MP Chintaman Wanga joining the Shiv Sena.

In a jolt to the BJP ahead of the May 28 bypoll to the Palghar Lok Sabha seat, Wangaโ€™s sons โ€“ Srinivas and Praful Wanga โ€“ along with their mother Jayashree had yesterday joined the Sena in the presence of its president Uddhav Thackeray.

Speaking to reporters yesterday, the late MPโ€™s sons had accused Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and state BJP president Raosaheb Danve of neglecting the family after the death of their father and refusing audience despite their repeated requests.

Patil today said that he did not agree with the late MPโ€™s familyโ€™s charge that the BJP was neglecting them.

โ€œWanga has been an MLA and MP for 35 years. It is wrong to say the party neglected the family,โ€ Patil.

He, however, added that he respected the sentiments of the family and stated that they were in public life on their own merit and hard work.

Chintaman Wanga (67) was elected from Palghar on a BJP ticket in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. He died on January 30 this year in New Delhi.

Responding to a query on how the BJP would deal with this setback, in the run-up to the bypoll there, Patil said that Fadnavis and Danve were โ€œseized of the matterโ€.

He added that the BJP was confident of overcoming the situation.

โ€œDiscussions are underway as to which member from the late MPโ€™s family should be selected as the partyโ€™s candidate for the Palghar Lok Sabha bypoll,โ€ Patil said.

He ruled out the possibility of state Tribal Development Minister Vishnu Savara or state Energy Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule being nominees of the party for the Palghar and Bhandara-Gondia LS bypolls.

โ€œThey are handling the partyโ€™s election campaign in the two constituencies,โ€ he told reporters, adding that โ€œyou donโ€™t have complete informationโ€.

Patil expressed happiness at the tie-up between the BJP and the Shiv Sena for the state Legislative Council polls saying that the two parties were of โ€œone ideology, culture and visionโ€.

โ€œWe may disagree on other occasions but we should work together for elections,โ€ Patil said.

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