The Varanasi Police on Tuesday arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party leader for allegedly raping a woman at a lodge, the Hindustan Times reported. In her complaint, the woman alleged that Kanhaiya Lal Mishra had called her to the lodge to meet a woman government officer about a job vacancy.
The woman said she had been communicating with Mishra for several months. Mishra is the party’s former Bhadohi district unit president, The Times of India reported, quoting Varanasi BJP regional unit president Mahesh Chandra Srivastava.
The woman alleged that the 50-year-old politician sexually assaulted her as soon as she entered the room. “She resisted and raised an alarm which drew other guests at the lodge to outside Mishra’s room,” an unidentified police officer said. The Sigra Police were called and Mishra was arrested.
“A case was registered against Kanhaiya Lal Mishra under relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code following a complaint by the woman and he was arrested,” the Hindustan Times quoted Sigra Police Inspector Satish Singh as saying.
Mishra’s case follows the the Central Bureau of Investigation’s arrest of BJP’s Uttar Pradesh legislator Kuldeep Singh Sengar on April 13, who is accused of raping a teenager in Unnao district in June 2017.
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