Peace Party chief booked for raping, causing death of nursing student

The Lucknow police on Saturday filed an FIR against Dr Mohd Ayub, national president of the Peace Party, for allegedly raping a 22-year-old nursing student and killing her by giving wrong medicines.

Ayub, who owns a number of hospitals in the state, is MLA from Khalilabad constituency in Sant Kabir Nagar district of east UP, and is contesting the assembly election from the same seat. The FIR may affect his electoral fortune when the constituency goes to polls in the fifth phase on February 27.

The 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 Friday night.

Her family has accused Ayub of raping her multiple times while she was studying in a city medical institute. 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.

Sources said a panel of five doctors conducted post-mortem examination of the victim’s body on Saturday.

“The doctors have suspected long term jaundice as the cause behind her death but have preserved viscera for further lab examination,” said a source. SSP Manzil Saini said further action would be decided as per the findings of the post-mortem report. The girl’s family members had been alleging rape for the past few days but had not lodged a police complaint.

They turned up to register the complaint only after the girl’s death. Nagesh Kumar Mishra, inspector of Madiaon police station, said the complainant informed the police that his family met Ayub during 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 here.

In the complaint, the girl’s brother said that Ayub used to visit her rented house whenever he visited Lucknow and raped her. He said Ayub threatened the girl with dire consequences, following 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 girl informed her family members about the trauma she was going through for the past few years when she became seriously ill.

The girl was admitted to the KGMU trauma centre on Thursday. She succumbed to her ailment on Friday night.