Uttarakhand's BJP leader Harak Singh Rawat accused in rape case

A complaint has reportedly been filed against Uttarakhand’s BJP leader Harak Singh Rawat for allegedly raping a 32-year-old woman in Delhi.

The woman filed a written FIR against him with the Safdarjung police on Friday, saying that Rawat misbehaved with her and touched her inappropriately, a report in The Indian Express said. Before BJP, Rawat was a Congress MLA. He was one of the rebel MLAs, who destabilised the Harish Rawat government. Her statement has been recorded under Section 164 of the CrPC, reports said. This is not the first time when a complaint has been registered against Rawat. In 2014, he was booked for molesting a 30-year-old woman in New Delhi. Rawat was the agriculture minister in Vijay Bahuguna’s Cabinet and continued as a minister when Harish Rawat took charge of the Uttarakhand government.