There was a fight between the two women and one of them later tried to commit suicide. In her "suicide note", she alleged that the other woman was harassing her husband and herself on the "behest" of local MLA Rajesh Rishi, a senior police officer said.
"His name is mentioned in one of the cross FIRs filed on the complaints by two sides at Janakpuri Police Station," the officer said.
However, she survived and gave a statement to police on the basis of which a case was registered on July 20. The same day, the other woman also lodged a complaint of rape by the husband of the one who had tried to commit suicide, the officer said, adding an FIR was registered on her complaint also.
Rubbishing the charges against him, Rishi claimed that he did not know her and it was a fight between two women in which his name was "unnecessarily dragged" into.
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