SIMDEGA, Nov 14: Police registered a case against two persons for allegedly abducting a 15-year-old girl and pressuring her to make a false statement accusing Jharkhand Congress MLA Bhushan Bara of rape.
The girl's uncle lodged a complaint at Pakartand police station in Simdega district on November 13. He alleged that the two persons had abducted the girl three days earlier and pressured her to level the rape allegation against Bara.
Simdega superintendent of police Shrikant S Khotre said a case had been registered against the two accused under various provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the POCSO Act. Police said one of the accused was a content creator associated with a YouTube channel. The investigation was underway.
The girl had earlier alleged that Bara's family took her to Ranchi in May this year after promising to arrange her education. Instead of enrolling her in a school, she was made to work as a domestic help at the MLA's official residence, she alleged.
She alleged that Bara raped her at his residence on August 5. She also claimed that she became pregnant and later learnt during a medical examination that she had suffered a miscarriage.
On the basis of her complaint, an FIR was registered against Bara at Dhurwa police station in Ranchi under the POCSO Act and the Juvenile Justice Act.
Bara, a two-time MLA, denied the allegations and described them as completely false and misleading. He claimed that some people expelled from the Congress had fabricated the case and said the truth would emerge after the investigation.
