By Raja Chowdhury
New Delhi: It the Bhartiya Janata Party which has released its first list of candidates for the Lok Sabha Elections 2019 is yet to understand that giving tickets to rape accused is not going to help them in the long run. The party which boasts of being a party with a difference has again proved that tickets are in free flow even for rape accused.
It is worthwhile to mention here that the former minister in the BJP Goverment
Nihal Chand Meghwal was dropped from the council of ministers after being accused of rape charges.
Nihal Chand has retained his Ganganagar seat ticket.
The woman, who hails from from Abubshahar in Haryana’s Sirsa district, had married Om Prakash of Hanumangarh, Rajasthan, in December 2010. In 2011, the couple shifted to Jaipur. However, she alleged that her husband had political ambitions and he would lace her meals with sedatives after which she was sexually assaulted by strangers. The allegations against Meghwal were levelled in 2011, and he was accused of being one of the men who abused the woman.
Subsequently, an FIR was registered in Jaipur’s Vaishali Nagar police station in November 2011. However, in 2012, the police filed a final report stating that the claims were untrue. She then approached the courts once again, but the Metropolitan Magistrate too dismissed her plea, holding the police’s final report as valid.
In 2013, she again filed a protest petition through her lawyer Chandu Ram Yadav. Meanwhile, Meghwal was re-elected to the Lok Sabha for a fourth term and also made a Union minister.
It was during this period that the court summoned Meghwal. His lawyer A K Jain, however, had said that “No case is made out against the MP as first the police and then the court has dismissed her claims. The case is being unnecessarily dragged by her.”
The case is since being heard in the ADJ court. Another reason for the delay was that the ADJ hearing the case was transferred, and hence the arguments in the case had to begin again.
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