4 years after house bulldozed, Madhya Pradesh leader Shafiq Ansari cleared in rape case | India News

BHOPAL: A courtroom in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district acquitted a former ward councillor of rape expenses on discovering that the complainant levelled the allegations in opposition to him as a result of his criticism had led to the demolition of her residence. Although Shafiq Ansari has now been confirmed harmless, he now not has a house of his personal. His residence was bulldozed by the administration lower than 10 days after the lady filed the criticism in March 2021. “I had built the house on 4,000sqft of land with my hard-earned savings. Now, there’s only rubble. We are staying in my brother’s house,” Ansari (58) instructed TOI Friday.
“We had all the papers. It was alleged that the house was built without permission, but we were not provided a chance to show records or say anything. It was simply torn down. I have a family of seven. They all suffered. I went to jail for three months,” stated Ansari, a former corporator of Sarangpur civic physique, round 130km from Bhopal. As per the lady’s criticism on March 4, 2021, Ansari referred to as her to his house on Feb 4, 2021, on the pretext of providing assist for her son’s wedding ceremony however raped her.
Ansari’s house was demolished on March 13, 2021. (*4*) Ansari stated.
The verdict got here on Feb 14 this 12 months. First further classes ju dge of Rajgarh district, Chitrendra Singh Solanki, famous “significant inconsistencies” in the testimonies of the lady and her husband. The courtroom noticed that though there’s a police station near her house, which was demolished, she didn’t report the alleged rape instantly. For 15 days after her son’s wedding ceremony, she neither knowledgeable her husband or any of her sons in regards to the alleged crime, and no motive was given for this delay, the courtroom famous. No human sperm was discovered on samples of the complainant, the order stated, concluding that rape couldn’t be confirmed from medical and scientific proof.
Ansari plans to maneuver courtroom searching for justice for the demolition of his house.