India, Nov. 12 -- The Uttarakhand Police have written to their Delhi counterparts and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), seeking documents related to a 2016 and a 2003 case after a 39-year-old Assam woman levelled fresh rape allegations against Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat.

The woman first lodged a complaint against Rawat in 2003 alleging that he fathered her child, which forced him to resign as a Uttarakhand minister. A DNA test returned negative, prompting the CBI to file a closure report and exonerate Rawat.

Rawat dismissed the fresh allegations as a ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s political conspiracy ahead of assembly polls and to divert attention from the 2022 Pauri Garhwal receptionist murder case. "They also k...