RAPE CASE: PEACE PARTY CHIEF HELD

LUCKNOW: Former MLA and national president of the Peace Party Dr Mohd Ayub was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged rape of a 22-year-old nursing student and her death due to wrong medicines. The police said he was arrested after crucial evidences were found in the case. Sources said Ayub was interrogated for over two hours at the office of CO Aliganj on Tuesday afternoon and the sent to jail.

Former MLA and national president of the Peace Party Dr Mohd Ayub was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the alleged rape of a 22-year-old nursing student and her death due to wrong medicines. The police said he was arrested after crucial evidences were found in the case.

Sources said Ayub was interrogated for over two hours at the office of circle officer (CO) Aliganj on Tuesday afternoon and the sent to jail.

CO Aliganj Vivek Tripathi is the investigation officer of the case lodged at Madiaon police station on February 25, 2017. The CO said the police could further seek his police remand to quiz him in the matter. The victim girl’s family had accused Ayub, who owns a number of hospitals in the state, of raping her multiple times while she was studying in a city medical institute in Madiaon. Her brother lodged a police complaint, following which an FIR was registered under Indian Penal Code sections dealing with rape, culpable homicide not amounting to murder and criminal intimidation.

The victim girl, whose liver and kidneys were damaged, was undergoing treatment at the trauma centre of King George's Medical University in Lucknow and died on the night of February 24, 2017.

The complainant alleged that his family met Ayub when he approached them at their residence in Ambedkar Nagar district while contesting the assembly polls in 2012. While at that time Ayub approached the girl and her family to campaign for him, after winning the polls he brought her to Lucknow on the pretext of providing her better education. The girl was admitted in a city medical institute and stayed in a rented accommodation in Madiaon area.

The girl’s brother alleged that Ayub used to visit her rented house whenever he visited Lucknow and used to rape her. He said Ayub threatened the girl with dire consequences, due to which she could not muster courage to oppose him.

He said Ayub also gave her wrong medicines when she used to complain of pain in her stomach after being sexually abused. The medicines damaged her liver and kidneys, he said. The girl informed her family members about the trauma when became seriously ill. The former MLA’s arrest came out as a surprise as he was not arrested nearly for over three months after the FIR .

CO ALIGANJ VIVEK TRIPATHI IS THE INVESTIGATION OFFICER OF THE CASE LODGED AT MADIAON POLICE STATION ON FEB 25, 2017.