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New Delhi: A Delhi court on Thursday sent Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh to one-day police custody in a rape case. Metropolitan Magistrate Babita Punia allowed Delhi Police to quiz the BSP legislator in a case related to rape of a 42-year-old woman. [caption id=“attachment_1242407” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  BSP MP Dhananjay Singh. PTI.[/caption] Dhananjay was booked under Sections 376 (rape) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) after the woman filed a complaint at east Delhi’s Pandav Nagar police station, claiming that the MP raped her several times at gunpoint. “The woman, a government employee, alleged that she was sexually assaulted by Dhananjay at her house in east Delhi’s Mayur Vihar Phase-I several times between July 2005 and March 2009,” an officer said. IANS
A Delhi court on Thursday sent Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) parliamentarian Dhananjay Singh to one-day police custody in a rape case.
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