A court has issued an arrest warrant against Ram Dular, the BJP MLA from the Duddhi assembly constituency in an eight-year-old rape case.
Additional Sessions Judge Rahul Mishra issued the arrest warrant on Thursday after the legislator, Ram Dular, did not appear in court despite repeated summons.
The court issued directions that the MLA be arrested and produced in court on January 23.
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]Assistant district government counsel Satya Prakash Tripathi said a person from the Myorpur area had on November 4, 2014, complained to the police that Ram Dular, the husband of the then village head, had allegedly raped his sister several times by threatening her.
Tripathi said the court has issued summons to Ram Dular several times but he did not appear citing health reasons.
Last year Former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA Satya Narayan Santu and six of his aides have been sentenced to seven years in jail in connection with a 16-year-old rape case.
The sentence was pronounced by a local MP/MLA court in Uttar Pradesh’s Hardoi.Satya Narayan was a BSP MLA from 2002 to 2007.
On March 11, 2006, a woman lodged a first information report (FIR) at Autrauli police station of Hardoi, charging Narayan and his aides with rape.
Additional district and sessions judge, Hardoi, Satya Deo Gupta pronounced the sentence against the former MLA and other accused and also imposed a fine of Rs 5,000 each.
Narrating the sequence of events, a senior police officer said that on March 11, 2006, the former MLA and his henchmen gang-raped the woman after holding her husband and son hostage.
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