UP Congress chief booked for ‘selling enmity’

An FIR has been lodged in opposition to Uttar Pradesh Congress president Ajay Rai on a criticism from the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) for allegedly selling enmity, police stated right here on Saturday.

Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) president Ajay Rai.(HT file)

In accordance with the criticism submitted to police by an ABVP office-bearer, Rai has accused the members of the organisation of being concerned in an alleged incident of molestation on the Banaras Hindu College (BHU) campus.

Based mostly on the criticism, an FIR was lodged in opposition to the Congress chief below part 505(2) (statements creating or selling enmity, hatred or ill-will between courses) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on the Lanka police station right here on Friday evening, Inspector (crime) Sahjanand Srivastav stated.

Rai described the criticism in opposition to him as an indication of nervousness on the a part of the ABVP, the scholars’ wing of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

“This exhibits their nervousness. A probe within the matter will reveal who’s concerned in it (the molestation incident). The BHU has grow to be a den of ABVP (members) who harbour outsiders,” he advised PTI.

The alleged incident of molestation occurred on Wednesday evening. In accordance with the complainant, she had gone out of her hostel with a buddy when three males on a bike forcibly took her to a nook and gagged her after separating her from her buddy close to the Karman Baba temple.

The accused then allegedly stripped the lady, made a video of her and took photographs. They let her go after about quarter-hour and took her cellphone quantity, the criticism acknowledged.

On the premise of the lady’s criticism, an FIR has been registered below part 354 (assault or felony pressure to a girl with intent to outrage her modesty) of the IPC and below provisions of the Data Know-how Act on the Lanka police station. Police are but to make any arrest within the matter.

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