Alleged incident took place when victim and her mother had gone to seek BSY’s help, states FIR
The complainant, the 17yearold victim’s mother, alleged the incident took place at Yediyurappa’s residence at Dollars Colony in city on February 2
The mother of a 17yearold girl, who has filed a case of sexual harassment against the former Chief Minister and senior BJP leader B.S. Yediyurappa, has claimed that the alleged incident occurred when she and her daughter had gone to his house at Dollars Colony in Bengaluru on February 2, seeking help in connection with a cheating case.
The Sadashivanagar police late on Thursday booked a case against Mr. Yediyurappa under Section 8 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, and Section 354 A of the Indian Penal Code. The victim in this case is said to be a rape survivor in an unrelated case pending elsewhere, sources said.
As per the FIR and the complaint by the victim’s mother, accessed by The Hindu, the victim’s mother and her minor daughter had allegedly gone to Mr. Yediyurappa’s house asking the former Chief Minister to get a Special Investigation Team to be set up to probe her cases “as she was cheated of several crores”.
The complainant said she had a conversation with Mr. Yediyurappa on this matter. This was not the first time that she and her daughter had met him. “My daughter considers him as grandfather and calls him thatha (grandfather). I used to call him appaji (a father figure),” according to the complainant.
“During the nineminute conversation, I informed him that my daughter is a rape survivor. He replied that he knows about her case,” the complainant alleged, adding that the former Chief Minister later took the minor into a room. After they had been in the room for about five minutes, the complainant alleged, Mr. Yediyurappa opened the door of the room and her daughter “rushed out weeping”.
“Mr. Yediyurappa told me that my daughter is mentally disturbed. As my daughter was crying, I asked her what happened, and she said that she had been molested,” the complainant alleged. When confronted, Mr. Yediyurappa was apologetic and promised to help her in the cheating case, she claimed.
“However, when I found my daughter to be emotionally broken, I refused the offer. Later, I again confronted Mr. Yediyurappa and demanded an explanation to which he told me not to reveal the incident, in an intimidating manner. I went back feeling threatened and did not have the courage to report the matter. However, I now thought over the issue, and felt that this is too serious an issue and needs to be reported,” the complainant claimed, explaining the delay in filing the complaint.