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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
A Patna district court on Wednesday handed 10 years' imprisonment and a fine of Rs10,000 to former Rashtriya Janata Dal legislator Hemlata Yadav's son Mritunjay Kumar, alias Babloo Yadav, in the sensational rape case of Champa Biswas, wife of a senior Indian Administrative Service officer.
The court, however, released Hemlata, ex-chairperson of the Social Welfare Board, as she had already spent nearly three years in judicial custody.
A case was registered against the two in 1998 at the behest of the National Human Rights Commission and the governor of Bihar after Biswas complained that Babloo had repeatedly raped her between September 1995 and November 1997.
Biswas, a mother of two, alleged that she was called to Hemlata's flat, adjacent to the one allotted to her husband B B Biswas who was then welfare secretary, on September 7, 1995. Her son was also present at that time.
She claimed that the RJD leader left the room and bolted the door, after which Babloo raped her and took her nude photographs.
In a statement to the police, she alleged that the two threatened to get her husband and children killed if she opened her mouth.
However, when her husband found the truth they fled to Delhi where she filed a complaint with the NHRC and also wrote to then Bihar governor A K Kidwai.
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