Fearing a threat to her life from unidentified assailants, the girl had who accused NCP MLA Dilip Wagh and his personal assistant Mahesh Mali of raping her, in a letter to Ahmednagar district collector has sought police protection.
Fearing a threat to her life from unidentified assailants, the girl had who accused NCP MLA Dilip Wagh and his personal assistant Mahesh Mali of raping her, in a letter to Ahmednagar district collector has sought police protection.
She and her family have complained of seeing suspicious-looking youths roaming around on vehicles in their neighbourhood. They have allegedly threatened her to withdraw the case failing which they have said they will take her away and kill her. Since then, she has been staying with her relatives, she has said in her letter to the collector, adding that she is being threatened there as well.
The 20-year-old victim is from Pathardi, Ahmednagar district. According to sources, the complainant, who is currently staying in Nevasa taluka in Ahmednagar district, has said in the letter that she left her town and started living with her relatives in Nevasa after she was threatened with dire consequences by unidentified men if she did not withdraw the case. However, she said that she is still receiving threats.
Demanding police protection, she said in her letter, “Rumours of my suicide are being spread and this could be a part of their plan to kill me and make it appear as a suicide.”
It may be recalled that according to the complaint by the victim, Wagh and Mali invited her to a government guest house in Nashik on February 21. The duo promised her a job and called her for an interview, where she was allegedly gangraped by the two.
She also said that she was threatened with dire consequences by Wagh, if she complained about them.
Four days after the incident when she lodged a complaint with the Sarkarvada police, Nashik. MLA Dilip Wagh had told media persons, “I don’t know the girl and the girl doesn’t know me. I had not even seen the girl who brought the charge. The charges are politically motivated.”
Despite an announcement of his suspension by Maharashtra NCP president Madhukar Pichad on the sidelines of a Navi Mumbai party meet in February, a lot of eyebrows had been raised when deputy chief minister and Sharad Pawar’s nephew, Ajit Pawar, at the same meet had said the probe would reveal if Wagh was guilty or if there had been an attempt to frame him. “If it is revealed that his opponents have tried to trap him and assassinate character, then the action taken against him will be revoked,” Ajit Pawar had said.
Many political observers have drawn parallel between this case and the one in Uttar Pradesh where a Dalit minor was raped and then charged with theft to pressurise her into not complaining, in early January this year.
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