Online Desk: A WOMAN rag picker was allegedly raped by a man after he forced her to consume liquor in the Agar Naka area of Indian state of Madhya Pradesh the other day, police said. After the woman filed a complaint about the incident that took place in the Ujjain city on Wednesday, the accused was arrested, The Hindu reported.
The video of the woman being raped on a footpath in the Ujjain city unleashed a war of words between the Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as the opposition party trained its guns over the “deteriorating law and order” in the state pointing out that the crime took place in Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s constituency, according to a report in The Indian Express on Thursday.
Police also arrested the man who allegedly filmed and shared the video of the rape, Independent reported on Sunday. Accused, man who filmed incident arrested; Congress ridicules BJP protest; ruling party says opposition is ‘politicising issue’
Police said the woman was raped on one of the busiest intersections of the city and the incident was also filmed by passersby, and yet nobody intervened.City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Om Prakash Mishra said on Thursday: “Yesterday, at around 3:30pm, a woman came to the police station and reported that she had been raped. Immediately a woman officer was called and her story was heard and an FIR was registered after informing the senior officers.”
Police said the complainant revealed the name of the accused, Lokesh. “A team was immediately formed and sent in search of Lokesh,” Mishra said, adding that the suspect was arrested within two hours of the FIR being registered. The accused was brought to the police station and questioned, during which Lokesh admitted to committing the crime,” he said.
The woman was medically examined and after that, Lokesh was presented before the court which sent him to judicial custody. The woman also confirmed the incident before a court of law. “A video of this incident was also made which also came to police, we have taken it as evidence,” Mishra said.
Police have alleged that Lokesh had “promised to marry her, made her drink liquor, and then raped her on Wednesday”. Some people who were passing by shot videos of the incident instead of stopping the crime, according to the police. Ujjain Superintendent of Police (SP) Pradeep Sharma said the individual who allegedly filmed the rape has been identified as Mohammad Salim, an auto rickshaw driver in the city.
