A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader was detained on Monday, March 3, in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl in Madhya Pradesh’s Tikamgarh district.
An official said that he leader allegedly harboured and provided room in his hotel to two accused who abducted and sexually assaulted the minor girl at the establishment last year, PTI reported.
The BJP’s district unit chief, Saroj Rajput, announced the expulsion of Sanju Yadav from the party’s primary membership and addressed the media on the matter.
It was also mentioned that Yadav had served as a representative of a former Union minister.
“Yadav was taken into custody from the Civil Lines area while he was heading towards his hotel this afternoon,” Kotwali police station house officer (SHO) Inspector Pankaj Sharma told PTI.
He said the police are probing into Yadav’s role in concealing the sexual assault and providing a room in his hotel to the two accused, who raped the girl there a year ago.
Sharma stated that the girl and her family filed a complaint on Saturday against the accused, Rohit Sahu and Vishal Sahu, alleging that they had forcibly taken her to Yadav’s hotel and assaulted her a year ago.
According to the complaint, the girl claimed that the accused had taken obscene photos of her and were blackmailing her for money, subjecting her to repeated abuse since then, he added.
A case was registered against the duo under sections 363 (kidnapping), 366 (seduction to illicit intercourse), and 384 (extortion) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
