Baghmara; 15 Dec 2019 (UMM): Sitting MLA and BJP’s Baghmara candidate Dulu Mahto faces a sexual assault case and is currently out on provisional bail. Mahto shared the stage with Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a poll rally on Thursday.
Mahto called a BJP worker in 2015 to a guesthouse in connection with party work and sexually assaulted her. Mahto later told her that if she does not accept his proposal, she would be “destroyed”.
According to The Indian Express; woman had earlier moved the Jharkhand High Court, which asked why an FIR was not lodged against the legislator. The police then registered the FIR in October this year.
A video had gone viral in 2018 where the woman is purportedly heard saying that if she does not get justice she would immolate herself in front of Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das.
Speaking to The Indian Express, the woman said, “I worked with the BJP for 15 years, but could not get justice from my own party, so I left it. After I filed the case online in November 2018, nobody listened… I had to take help of the HC to get an FIR registered. But till date, police have not called me for a statement.”
Jharkhand DGP K N Choubey said, “After the case was registered, we arrested Mahto and he got bail.
Jharkhand BJP general secretary Deepak Prakash said the court would decide whether Mahto had committed a crime and “…once the court decides, the state BJP will take a call…”.
