Jaipur: A court on Tuesday directed the Jaipur police to file a case against Minister of State for Food and Civil Supplies Babulal Nagar for raping a woman on the pretext of providing her a ‘suitable job’.
Speaking about the tainted minister Babulal, who may pose fresh problems for the government ahead of elections, chief minister Ashok Gehlot said, “No one is above the Law. I think the court should be allowed to take its own course in the case.” The police have booked the minister for rape following the court directive that came following the victim’s petition alleging that minister Babulal Nagar had raped her on the pretext of promising her job.
In her petition to the court, the woman alleged that the minister telephoned her on September 11 and called her to his residence saying that there was some urgent work. She alleged that the minister promised her a job, attacked her after she spurned his advances and raped her. No family member was present at the premises at that time. “After raping me, the minister threatened me saying that if I went to the police, I will be killed just like Bhanwri Devi and my son will be killed,” the victim said in her petition to the court.
Meanwhile, Babulal Nagar has denied the victim’s allegation terming them baseless and saying: “Previously, too, she involved me in a similar case and registered an FIR.”
With the victim drawing a parallel to the Bhanwari Devi case, the allegation has come as a fresh headache for the Gehlot government ahead of elections. Mahipal Maderna, a sacked minister, is currently in jail in the Bhanwari Devi murder and blackmail case that had brought disrepute to the Gehlot government. Bhanwari, a midwife, was killed on September 1, 2011, allegedly at the behest of Maderna and Congress MLA Malkhan Singh. The CBI probed the matter and alleged that she was blackmailing both the leaders over her sex CDs with the two politicians.
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