New Delhi, (PTI) Sacked Delhi Minister and AAP MLA Sandeep
Kumar arrested on charges of rape on a complaint of a woman who figured
in an objectionable video with him, was produced in a Delhi
court which remanded him in police custody for one day.
Kumar, 36, was produced before a magisterial court in Rohini here,
which sent him to police custody till Monday on a Delhi Police
plea for remand to quiz him in the case.
The former minister was arrested yesterday night after a woman approached
Sultanpuri police station in north Delhi with a complaint of sexual
harassment against the former social welfare and women and child
development minister following which a case was filed.
The police have booked him under section 376 (rape), 328 (causing
hurt by means of poison with intent to commit an offence) of IPC,
under section 67A of IT Act (punishment for publishing or transmitting
of material containing sexually explicit act) and Section 7 of the
Prevention of Corruption Act (public servant taking gratification
other than legal remuneration for an official act).
In her complaint, the woman alleged that around 11 months ago she
was raped by Kumar when she had gone to his office in Outer Delhi's
Sultanpuri seeking help to obtain a ration card.
She alleged that Kumar had offered her a spiked drink and when she
fell unconscious, she was taken to his house adjacent to the office and raped.
The woman alleged that Kumar had told her that he will get a ration
card for her and also ensure jobs for her children.
Kumar was removed from the AAP government on August 31 by Chief
a compromising position with the woman surfaced.
The MLA from Sultanpur Majra had surrendered before the investigators
at the office of DCP (Outer) in Pitampura where his statement was
recorded, police officials had said.
Soon after the controversy, the MLA had defended himself, saying
he has been targeted.
Kumar's wife has also come out in support of her husband, claiming
that he was "falsely implicated" in the scandal.
