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UP: BJP MLA, son booked after girl alleges rape, harassment 

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By PTI

AGRA: A BJP MLA has been booked for harassment and his son for alleged rape after a 36-year-old girl lodged a grievance towards them, police mentioned on Wednesday.

According to the FIR registered at Tajganj Police Station, the lady was allegedly raped by Laxmi Kant Verma, son of BJP MLA from the Fatehabad constituency Chhotey Lal Verma, again in 2003 when she was 17 years previous.

The girl was a buddy of the MLA’s daughter and would go to their home often, she mentioned in her grievance.

On November 16, 2003, Laxmi Kant Verma gave her a drink allegedly laced with sedatives and after she fainted, he raped her, the lady mentioned.

She claimed that the accused recorded a video of the act and threatened her with dire penalties if she instructed anybody about it, based on the grievance.

The girl mentioned someday later, Laxmi Kant Verma married her at a temple and received her a job as a receptionist at a cyber cafe in Agra that was owned by him and his buddy.

The couple’s firstborn was a lady and because the accused needed the second little one to be male, he pressured her to get an abortion.

She later gave beginning to a son, the lady mentioned.

In 2006, Laxmi Kant Verma married one other girl from Rajasthan after forcing the complainant to signal divorce papers, based on the FIR.

The girl mentioned the BJP MLA and different members of the family of the accused had been answerable for destroying her and her two kids’s lives.

SHO Tajganj Police Station Bhupendra Baliyan mentioned, “The complaint has been registered against Laxmikant Verma under sections 376 (rape), 313 (causing miscarriage), 323 and 328 (causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation), 494 (bigamy) of the Indian Penal Code.”

AGRA: A BJP MLA has been booked for harassment and his son for alleged rape after a 36-year-old girl lodged a grievance towards them, police mentioned on Wednesday.

According to the FIR registered at Tajganj Police Station, the lady was allegedly raped by Laxmi Kant Verma, son of BJP MLA from the Fatehabad constituency Chhotey Lal Verma, again in 2003 when she was 17 years previous.

The girl was a buddy of the MLA’s daughter and would go to their home often, she mentioned in her grievance.

On November 16, 2003, Laxmi Kant Verma gave her a drink allegedly laced with sedatives and after she fainted, he raped her, the lady mentioned.

She claimed that the accused recorded a video of the act and threatened her with dire penalties if she instructed anybody about it, based on the grievance.

The girl mentioned someday later, Laxmi Kant Verma married her at a temple and received her a job as a receptionist at a cyber cafe in Agra that was owned by him and his buddy.

The couple’s firstborn was a lady and because the accused needed the second little one to be male, he pressured her to get an abortion.

She later gave beginning to a son, the lady mentioned.

In 2006, Laxmi Kant Verma married one other girl from Rajasthan after forcing the complainant to signal divorce papers, based on the FIR.

The girl mentioned the BJP MLA and different members of the family of the accused had been answerable for destroying her and her two kids’s lives.

SHO Tajganj Police Station Bhupendra Baliyan mentioned, “The complaint has been registered against Laxmikant Verma under sections 376 (rape), 313 (causing miscarriage), 323 and 328 (causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation), 494 (bigamy) of the Indian Penal Code.”