Ex-Shia Board chief booked for ‘raping’ former employee’s wife, case registered

Friday, 16 July 2021Newsdesk

Former Shia Waqf Board Chairman Wasim Rizvi has been booked for rape after a woman, whose husband used to work for him, lodged a complaint.

New Delhi, 16 July 2021

The case was registered at a police station in Lucknow on Thursday. Rizvi has been booked under IPC sections 376 (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 392 (robbery). Speaking to The Indian Express on Thursday evening, SHO of the police station concerned, Brijesh Kumar Yadav, said that the case was filed on an order from Lucknow Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate AK Srivastava. “She had moved court which, on Tuesday, ordered an FIR be filed,” the SHO said.

Source -indianexpress.com