Police wrongly recorded statement against BSP MP, says woman

A 42-year-old woman, who had accused BSP MP Dhananjay Singh of repeatedly raping her for four years but did a U-turn during hearing, today told a Delhi court that her statement was recorded wrongly by the police.
Singh, a MP from Jaunpur Constituency in Uttar Pradesh, today moved his bail plea which would be heard on April 7.
According to the sources, the 42-year-old woman told Additional Sessions Judge Sarita, during an in-camera hearing, that there was some misunderstanding due to which she had lodged a complaint against Singh but she had not said that she was raped by him.

The court concluded recording of testimony of the woman, a railway employee, and fixed the matter for April 7 for further prosecution evidence.
The woman, in her deposition in the court yesterday, had also said that nothing wrong was done to her by Singh and he had not raped her.
Her testimony, however, was contrary to the woman's earlier statements before the police and a magistrate in which she had said she was repeatedly raped by Singh for nearly four years.

In the charge sheet against Singh in the rape case, the police alleged that he had repeatedly raped the woman between July 2005 and March 2009.

Referring to the complaint filed by the woman, the police had alleged the victim was raped several times by Singh at gunpoint and was threatened with dire consequences if she reported the matter.
The woman had said during her deposition that she had lodged the complaint against Singh as he used to interfere in her matrimonial life and her husband had sent her divorce papers in 2009 due to which she was disturbed, the sources had said.
She also said she does not want to depose anything against Singh and had made her statement before the magistrate under pressure from her relatives.