'Rape' victim in Maharashtra turns the table on BJP leader, MVA exults

In a stunner an alleged rape victim from Pune has turned the tables on a senior Bharatiya Janata Party woman leader and now has appealed to the police for protection as she apprehends threats to her lifeThe alleged rape victim spilled the beans of a purported conspiracy hatched by state BJP Womens Wing Vice President Chitra Wagh accusing her and some others of seeking to frame Shiv Sena MinisterDr Raghunath Kuchik who is the General Secretary of Bharatiya Kamgar Sena the party labour wingSpeaking to a private Marathi TV channel the victim in her early 20s claimed that Wagh along with Mohammed Ahmed Uncle Deepak Pawar and others had kidnapped herShe further said that Wagh and Ahmed forced her to implicate Dr Kuchik in a false rape case under threats of death and to eliminate her if required and used an app for purportedly sending and receiving messages from the accused minister mobile phone and sullying his imageThe alleged victim charged Wagh and Ahmed of constantly pressurising her injecting sedatives confining her for several days and Pawar forcing her to submit a letter allegedly penned by Dr Kuchik to Pune police and then abandoning her in the wild on the GoaPune roadThe mobile phones of my family and mine are being tapped They immediately call me up whenever I get calls especially from journalists Even now our phones are under surveillance Wagh instructed me what to tell the police or talk to the media I have been threatened by them several times the victim claimedStoutly rubbishing the victims contentions on camera Wagh told media persons that she would now be targetted by the Maha Vikas Aghadi MVA governmentMaharashtra State Commission for Women MSCW Chairperson and NCP leader Rupali Chakankar said finally the fraud perpetrated by the powerlusty BJP playing temple politics now stands exposedSoon after we received the victims complaint a full investigation was launched against Dr Kuchik and later a Pune court had granted him anticipatory bail However the BJPs falsehoods have ruined the victims future said ChakankarNCP womens wing leader Rupali PatilThombare said even when the matter was under investigation by the Pune Police and the courts Wagh held press conferences and conducted a media trial of Dr Kuchik by displaying the alleged evidence against himWith the fresh twist in the case it is possible that Wagh herself maybe under the scanner warned PatilThombareSenior Sena leader and Deputy Chairperson of Maharashtra Legislative Council Dr Neelam Gorhe said briefly that the police should give equal weightage to the victims revelations in the caseCongress state Chief Spokesperson Atul Londhe said this is yet another glaring example of how the BJPs dirty tricks department works in Maharashtra and other nonBJP states where they are desperate to topple the governments and grab power by stooping to any depthsContacted by IANS Dr Kuchik declined to comment since the matter is subjudice and police investigationsThe victim had sparked a furore in February when she accused Dr Kuchik of allegedly raping her on multiple occasions with promises of marriage abducting torturing threatening and intimidating forcing her to undergo an abortion etcThough Dr Kuchik had consistently refuted the charges as fictitious and baseless the Pune police and the MSCW initiated a probe while the BJP attempted it to gain political mileage and embarrass the MVA governmentThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever