VARANASI: Jailed MLA and muscleman Vijay Mishra, his son and nephew were booked in a gang-rape case in Bhadohi after a 25-year-old woman from Varanasi filed a complaint against them accusing them of sexually harassing her since 2014.
SP Bhadohi RB Singh said, “The woman had turned up with a complaint that she was being sexually harassed by Mishra and his family for past six years. Gopiganj police lodged an FIR under section 376D, 342 and 506 of IPC against Vijay Mishra, his son Vishnu Mishra and nephew Vikas Mishra. Further investigation in this case has been started.”
In her complaint, the woman alleged that she had been called to perform songs at the residence of Vijay Mishra in 2014. “When I was changing my clothes, before the programme Mishra entered my room and raped me after threatening me of dire consequences. Later, he asked Vishnu and Vikas to drop me at my home. The duo took me to other building and raped me. In 2015, I was called by Mishra in Allapur area in Allahabad and later in a hotel in Varanasi where he raped me again,” the woman alleged adding Mishra had also recorded some obscene video clips and he used to make video calls to force her for sexual chats. Upset over his activities, she shifted to Mumbai, the woman alleged.
Mishra, who is currently lodged in Agra jail, had come in the line of fire when Aurai cops booked him under Goonda Act on July 18 for issuing threats to a contractor, who got the contract of realising toll at Lalanagar toll plaza on National Highway-2 in Aurai area.
On August 8 Krishna Kanth Tiwari, a relative of Vijay Mishra had lodged an FIR against him, his wife and MLC Ramlali Mishra and son Vishnu with Gopiganj police alleging that the trio forcibly got his property registered in their name. Mishra was arrested in Madhya Pradesh on August 14 in the same case while Ramlali and Vishnu are absconding and order for attaching their property had already been issued by the court. After it two more FIRs were lodged against him.
(The victim's identity has not been revealed to protect her privacy as per Supreme Court directives on cases related to sexual assault)