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Rape case: No SC relief for Prajapati

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Ms Harneep Kaur Bhullar
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Rape case: No SC relief for Prajapati
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court today refused to recall its order for registration of a case of gang-rape against senior Samajwadi Party leader and Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati, who is reportedly absconding to evade arrest. Prajapati, Transport Minister in the Akhilesh Yadav Government, is facing a non-bailable warrant (NBW) of arrest after the Supreme Court last month ordered registration of an FIR against him and six others for allegedly repeatedly raping a woman from Chitrakoot. The Bench said the accused was free to move the appropriate court for bail in case he was arrested. “Whatever remedies the parties have they will have right to avail,” it said. Terming the politicisation of its order for registration of an FIR against Prajapati as “unfortunate”, the Bench made it clear that it was not monitoring the case and its order was confined to registration of the FIR. Prajapati had also requested the court to give him protection from arrest, which he apparently didn’t get. Prajapati—reinstated after being sacked from the Cabinet last year—had contended that the court passed the order without issuing him notice and without giving an opportunity to be heard. He had also pointed out that the woman who filed the complaint against him was a BJP councillor and the UP Government did not present his side properly. —PTI-
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