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Uttarakhand BJP Leader Harak Singh Yadav Accused of Rape

An FIR was registered against Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) leader Harak Singh Rawat on Saturday for allegedly raping a 32-year-old woman in the national capital.

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In 2014, a molestation case was filed against the former agriculture minister in Delhi.

The woman filed a written FIR against him with the Safdarjung police on Friday, saying that Rawat misbehaved with her and touched her inappropriately, a report in The Indian Express said. He was one of the primary rebel Congress leaders, leading against Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat.

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Sources said the woman had alleged about a decade ago that Harak Singh, then a minister in the Congress government, was the father of her son. He was suspended from Congress in the month of May 2016. He was earlier accused of molesting another woman in 2003, after which a case was registered against him.

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