‘Rape’ case: Date sought from FSL for voice sampling of Sitapur MP

“The police are more likely to get the date by subsequent week,” they added. They mentioned an area court docket on Tuesday, nonetheless, prolonged the MP’s judicial custody and so he’ll stay in jail until February 24 earlier than which the police are attempting to hold out the voice pattern take a look at.

Earlier, the MP was despatched to judicial custody until February 11. He was arrested from his Sitapur residence on January 30 after remaining elusive for round 2 weeks.

The police have been trying to find him after a 45-year-old lady lodged an FIR with Sitapur Metropolis Kotwali on January 17, alleging that he raped her a number of occasions prior to now 4 years, promising to marry her and make her political profession.

The FIR was lodged underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 64 (rape), 351 (3) (felony intimidation) and 327 (2) (threatening utilizing a firearm).

“We’ve already utilized for the date with FSL, Mahanagar, Lucknow, in order that correct and clear voice sampling may very well be executed. Though the MP had confessed that it was his voice within the recorded telephonic dialog that the complainant had offered earlier than the police as proof in help of her allegations, voice pattern take a look at can be carried out to authenticate issues whereas submitting chargesheet and later for the court docket trial, ” mentioned inspector in-charge of Sitapur Metropolis Kotwali, Anoop Shukla, who’s investigation officer (IO) within the case.

He mentioned the MP could be taken to the FSL lab after procuring permission from the competent court docket as soon as the police get the date for the voice sampling take a look at.

The cop mentioned additional investigation within the case was occurring and the main target was on submitting a powerful chargesheet within the matter. “We talked about the identical issues earlier than the native MP/MLA court docket after which the MP’s judicial custody was prolonged until February 24,” he added.

Sitapur district authorities counsel Prashant Shukla confirmed that the MP/MLA court docket Decide Dinesh Kumar Nagar had earlier rejected the bail petition of the Congress MP after listening to the arguments of defence and prosecution counsel on February 5.

He mentioned the defence counsel approached the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad excessive court docket to get aid within the case within the type of bail to the MP.

The MP had been elusive after registration of the FIR amid makes an attempt to get anticipatory bail within the case, however the Lucknow bench of Allahabad excessive court docket on January 29 turned down his petition for anticipatory bail and directed him to give up within the Sitapur district and classes court docket inside two weeks’ time.

The subsequent day, the Sitapur police arrested him from his home whereas he was addressing a press convention to make clear his stand over the allegations.