PATNA: Senior IAS officer Sanjeev Hans and previous RJD MLA Gulab Yadav have actually been scheduled for alleged gang-rape of a supporter at gunpoint.

The 2 have likewise been accused of blackmailing and threatening to eliminate her if she opened her mouth.An FIR in this regard was lodged on Tuesday against the Bihar cadre (1997-batch) IAS officer and the previous MLA with Rupaspur police headquarters in Patna on the order of extra chief judicial magistrate (ACJM) Naveen Kumar Srivastava of Danapur civil court throughout the hearing on the petition of the victims supporter on Saturday (January 7).

After stopping working to submit an FIR against the two defendants at Patna femaless police station, the advocate had moved the court in November 2021.

Sanjeev is presently the principal secretary of state energy department-cum-CMD of BSPHCL.

Gulab was suspended from RJD for 6 years in March 2022 for delighting in anti-party activities.

Rupaspur police headquarters SHO Ramanuj Ram stated the case (18/23) has been registered against Sanjeev and Gulab under different Sections of IPC in addition to Section 67 of the IT Act.The IPC Sections under which the case has actually been registered are 120B (criminal conspiracy to dedicate an offense punishable with death), 313 (commits the offence specified in the last preceding area without the permission of the female), 323 (voluntarily triggering hurt), 341 (wrongful restraint), 376, 376 D (gang-rape), 420 (cheating), 504 and 506/ 34 (criminal intimidation) and Section 67 of the IT Act.Patna SSP Manavjit Singh Dhillon told TOI that the duty of investigation of this case has actually been offered to the circle inspector of Danapur, Manju Kumari.

The medical examination of the victim will be done on January 12 and her declaration will be taped under Section 164.

For clinical evidence, the blood samples of the implicated and her child will be collected with the consent of the court for DNA screening to establish the biological father of the kid, he said.The victim has declared that she got pregnant in 2018 as she had refused to terminate the child and give birth in October that year.

She first met the then MLA Gulab in 2016, when she went to a senior advocate remaining at Gardanibagh of Patna.On the pretext of making her a member of state womens commission, Gulab welcomed her to his residence with CV and supposedly raped her at gunpoint.In 2017, he presented her to Sanjeev in Pune, where they drugged her and supposedly gang raped her.

They had actually likewise allegedly made videos of the act and typically raped the victim while blackmailing her, she declared.

The SSP stated ASP Kamya Mishra in 2015 performed a query and prima facie discovered the claims true.The ASP sent the preliminary report in June, however the court did not pass any order for 6 months, so the victim approached the high court.

After she approached the HC, the court bought for the registration of an FIR, Dhillon said.(The victims identity has actually not been revealed to secure her privacy according to Supreme Court regulations on cases connected to sexual attack)