Hindustan Times (Lucknow)

FIR AGAINST BSP MLA FOR ‘SEXUAL HARASSMENT’

- HT Correspond­ent lkoreporty­ersdesk@htlive.com

LUCKNOW: An FIR has been registered in Lucknow against Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA from Mubarakpur, Shah Alam, here on Sunday. The FIR has been registered in city’s Gomti Nagar police station against Alam alias Guddu Jamali for allegedly sexually harassing and threatenin­g to kill a woman. The police are further investigat­ing the matter.

LUCKNOW : Police on Sunday booked Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA from Mubarakpur Shah Alam, for allegedly sexually harassing and threatenin­g to kill one of his women employees.

The FIR has been registered in Gomti Nagar police station. The complainan­t said she was appointed as deputy manager in the MLA’s firm in May last year. Within a week, he approached her seeking sexual favours. When the woman protested, he said he was just checking her loyalty.

“Later, I noticed some irregulari­ties and exploitati­on of women in the office. I recorded audio and video evidences,” she said, as per the FIR.

She also named Akshit Kapoor and Sumita—both employees of the BSP MLA in the FIR. She said Sumita approached her on January 4 this year to ‘cooperate’ with Alam. On January 6, Alam tried to threaten the complainan­t by asking her to sign a resignatio­n letter, she told police. The woman approached cops on January 12 and later also handed over all the evidences. Alam sent her the suspension letter by post on January 14, reads the FIR.

On her complaint, police have booked Alam, Akshit and Sumita under Section 354 (outraging a woman’s modesty) and 506 ( criminal intimidati­on) of the Indian penal code (IPC), said in charge of Gomtinagar police station Amit Kumar Dubey.

Alam could not be contacted despite repeated attempts.

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