MUMBAI: Rape-accused former minister Sucha Singh Langah, who was on the run from the law since September 29, surrendered in the court of chief judicial magistrate here on Wednesday.
“We submitted a surrender application which was accepted by the court after my client submitted him to the process of the law. The public prosecutor sought a 10-day police remand. However, the judge sent him to five days in police custody,” said his lawyer Harpreet Rajan Brar.
On Tuesday, he had earlier filed a transit anticipatory bail in Chandigarh Court before the duty magistrate but was turned down on the grounds that he had to surrender in Gurdaspur where the case was registered against him.
The former Shiromani Akali Dal minister had gone underground after the Punjab police on the complaint of a woman employee of the Punjab Police Vigilance Department booked him in a rape case.
The woman in her complaint had alleged that Langah had been blackmailing and raping her since 2009. She also attached a video which showed Langah in a compromising position with her.
Langah has been booked under sections 376 (rape), 384 (extortion), 420 (cheating), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.