NEW DELHI: After a woman lawyer approached the Patiala House Court in Delhi alleging that a BJP MP from Gujarat, KC Patel, had raped her multiple times, the MP filed a case against her saying she had entrapped him, which has prompted the Delhi police to launch a hunt for her.
The woman had on Wednesday approached the Patiala House Court charging Patel with rape. Police said the woman said she was first raped by Patel at his official residence on March 3, this year when he invited her to dinner. He raped her on several other occasions in various places.
She also accused Patel of threatening her with dire consequences if she approached police. She told the court that police refused to register her complaint.
Delhi Police said on Monday that the MP filed a complaint alleging extortion by a woman-led gang after being honey-trapped and filmed in an "objectionable position".
The woman, in fact, had told the court that she had filmed one of the encounters in which she was raped, in order to present evidence of his repeated crime against her.
"I was raped multiple times by Patel. I had to make a CD as evidence so that he stops threatening me. I approached the court to know the status of my complaint after police refused to register my case," she said.
Reports say that the woman had earlier approached a Delhi court alleging she was raped by Lok Sabha member from Valsad.
However, notably, Patel's complaint came after the woman approached the Patiala House Court. There is no reason specified as to why he waited to file his complaint until after she had approached the court, despite his claim that she had filmed the sexual act to extort money from him.
"Patel alleged the woman gave him a spiked drink at her residence and filmed him in objectionable positions after he became unconscious," said a police officer.
"She threatened to make the clips go viral. She demanded Rs 5 crore from him," said the officer, stating what Patel’s complaint had alleged.
"The woman had earlier extorted at least 15 other people, including some businessmen and a Haryana-based senior politician," he added.
The MP said the woman approached him seeking his assistance but he realised he was honey-trapped after she showed him the objectionable video clips.
In his complaint on Saturday to Delhi Police Commissioner Amulya Patnaik, Patel alleged that the gang was led by the woman who took him to her house in Ghaziabad.
Following the complaint, Delhi Police registered an FIR under Section 384 of the IPC against the city-based lawyer. According to the police, the woman had registered a complaint at Tilak Marg police station, about two months back, but at the moment of FIR she changed her statement.
"Investigations reveal that she took back her complaints when police started probing them," Special Commissioner of Police M K Meena said.
"This time she tried to extort Patel. We are investigating from all possible angles," Meena said.
(With inputs from ENS and IANS)