Senior Bihar IAS officer, ex-RJD MLA booked for rape charges
The Hindu
The FIR against 1997-batch IAS officer Sanjeev Hans, and former RJD MLA Gulab Yadav, has been filed with the Rupaspur police station in Patna.
A senior IAS officer and a former Rashtriya Janata Dal MLA from Jhanjharpur have been booked allegedly for rape on a complaint by a woman who is a lawyer in Allahabad High Court.
The woman has also claimed that the IAS officer is the biological father of her child born in December’ 2018.
The FIR (First Information Report) against 1997-batch IAS officer Sanjeev Hans who is currently posted as principal secretary in State energy department and former RJD MLA of Jhanjharpur Gulab Yadav, has been filed with the Rupaspur police station in Patna.
“The FIR against both has been registered for rape and other sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), besides sections of the Information Technology Act”, said Patna Senior Superintendent of Police, Manavjit Singh Dhillon.
The FIR said that the former RJD MLA Gulab Yadav lured the woman with promise to make her a member of the Bihar Women’s Commission and called her to his residence in Rukanpura area of Patna in 2016 and allegedly raped her while making a video of the incident.
Gulab Yadav was RJD MLA from Jhanjharpur in Madhubani district from 2015-2020 but, later, was expelled from the party in March 2022.
Later, said the FIR, the ex-RJD MLA called the woman to different hotels in Delhi and Pune where he and the IAS officer raped her repeatedly. They also allegedly threatened the woman to make the video viral on social media.
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