Uttarakhand BJP chief let boyfriend, his aide rape her teenaged daughter

A neighborhood BJP chief in Haridwar allegedly let her boyfriend and his aide rape her 13-year-old daughter, the police mentioned on Thursday, 5 June, including that every one three have been arrested.

The trio has been booked underneath completely different sections of the POCSO Act and the BNS, together with on gang-rape costs.

Anamika Sharma and her boyfriend Sumit Patwal have been arrested from a resort in Haridwar on Wednesday, 4 June, after a medical examination of the lady confirmed that she was sexually assaulted, Haridwar SSP Pramendra Dobhal mentioned.

Patwal’s confederate Shubham was additionally arrested late on Wednesday evening from Shahpur, Meerut, he added.

The matter got here to mild on Tuesday, 3 June, when the minor instructed her father about her ordeal, following which he lodged a police grievance.

A case was registered towards the trio underneath BNS Sections 70 (2) (gang-rape), 351(3) (legal intimidation), 3(5) (legal act) by a number of individuals in furtherance of widespread intention) and related sections of the POCSO Act.

Anamika previously headed the BJP Mahila Morcha’s Haridwar district unit. Nonetheless, as soon as her title cropped up within the case, she was stripped of the occasion’s main membership.