Press Trust of India BHOPAL, 9 JULY: Disgraced former Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji was today arrested here following sodomy allegations levelled against…
Editorial Team | July 9, 2013 8:32 am
Press Trust of India
BHOPAL, 9 JULY: Disgraced former Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Raghavji was today arrested here following sodomy allegations levelled against him by his domestic servant Rajkumar Dangi, police said.
“Raghavji has been arrested from a flat in Koh-e-Fiza locality in old city area of Bhopal where he was hiding,” Inspector General (IG) Bhopal Range Upendra Jain told PTI.
The door of the flat was locked from outside and Mr Raghavji was inside, police said.
Acting on a tip-off, police reached the flat some time back and knocked the door. “When nobody responded, police broke open the door and found Mr Raghvaji,” the IG said.
After his formal arrest, he is being brought to the Habibganj Police Station, where an FIR against him had been registered two days back.
Soon after the registration of an FIR, Mr Raghavji, who celebrated his 79th birthday on Sunday, went missing from Vidisha.
The FIR was filed by his servant, who alleged that Mr Raghavji abused him for the last three-and-a-half years on the promise of getting him a government job.
Mr Dangi later confided in the suspended BJP leader, Shiv Shankar Pateria about his ordeal, who asked him to record the act.
The victim prepared 22 purported CDs, which showed Mr Raghavji in the act, including one in Rewanchal Express Train.
After the exposure of the CDs, Mr Raghavji resigned from the Cabinet. He was expelled from the BJP on Sunday.
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