Nine years after he was accused of raping a minor, a BJP MLA from Uttar Pradesh has been sentenced to 25 years in jail and now faces disqualification from the Assembly. The crime took place in 2014 and the survivor’s brother said the MLA had pressured and threatened the family for over a year after the complaint was filed.
Ramdulare Gond, a tribal MLA from the Duddhi Assembly constituency in Sonbhadra district, was sentenced to 25 years’ rigorous imprisonment and fined âč 10 lakh by an MP-MLA court on Friday.
In 2014, Gond’s wife was the head of a village panchayat in the Duddhi constituency. Gond, who was a local strongman, was trying to make it big in politics by leveraging his wife’s position. Gond raped the girl on November 4, 2014, and a complaint was registered at the Myorpur police station.