Raipur, May 22 -- A Ranchi-based businessman was arrested after a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) woman leader from Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district accused him of allegedly raping and cheating her after luring her to invest more than Rs.1.5 crore in a mining business, police said on Friday.

An FIR was registered against Sanjay Singh at the Civil Lines police station on May 14 on charges of rape, extortion and cheating, among others, following a complaint lodged by the woman BJP leader, Senior Superintendent of Police Rajnesh Singh said.

Singh, who was arrested from Ranchi in neighbouring Jharkhand, was brought to Bilaspur on Friday, the police officer added.

Police said mobile chats, call records, financial transactions and other documen...