Old case files sought from CBI, Delhi Police
Dehradun, Nov. 13 -- The Uttarakhand Police has written to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) seeking documents related to a 2003 case after a 39-year-old woman from Assam levelled fresh rape allegations against former state minister and Congress leader Harak Singh Rawat, officials said on Thursday.
Police have also asked the Delhi Police to share records of a separate 2016 case filed by the same woman against the senior Congress leader.
The woman had first lodged a criminal complaint against Rawat in 2003 during the ND Tiwari-led Congress government in Uttarakhand, alleging that he had fathered her child. The controversy had forced Rawat to resign from the state cabinet. However, a CBI probe and a subsequent DNA test returned negative, prompting the central agency to file a closure report in the court, giving him a clean chit. Later, in 2016, the woman registered another rape FIR against Rawat at Delhi's Safdarjung Enclave police station.
Doiwala circle officer (CO) Vandana Verma said, "We have written to the CBI and Delhi Police seeking documents of the old cases registered in 2003 and 2016, respectively, on the complaint of the same woman against Rawat. We will first gather information from the previous probes as we begin collecting evidence in connection with the fresh allegations. It may take some time as we need to connect the dots."...
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