Court orders BSP MLA accused of rape to undergo DNA test

A local court today directed Uttar Pradesh health department to conduct a DNA test of jailed BSP MLA Purshottam Naresh Dwiwedi arrested on the charge of raping a minor backward community girl.

Chief judicial magistrate Trapta Chaudhary directed the chief medical officer to get a DNA test of the MLA done within a week's time, prosecution sources said.

The order was passed on an application moved by the government counsel, they said.

Forty-eight-year-old Dwiwedi, who is a sitting MLA from Naraini seat in Banda, was arrested on January 13 after CB-CID in its report indicted him for allegedly raping the girl.

The girl was allegedly raped on December 10-11 at the legislators's residence. She escaped from the MLA's house on December 12 when the MLA allegedly attempted rape her for the third time and she was arrested the same day on theft charges.

She told her brother about the incident when she was produced before the court on December 24 in connection with theft charges.

The girl levelled the rape charge before the court on January 10 and it ordered immediate action.