DELHI, SEPTEMBER 5: After expiry of one day police custody, Sandeep Kumar, 36, was produced before Special Judge Poonam Chaudhry. After a woman approached Sultanpuri police station in north Delhi with a complaint of sexual harassment against the former social welfare and child development minister a case was filed. The former minister was arrested on September 3. The woman had appeared in an objectionable video with him. Sandeep Kumar has been booked under section 376 (rape), 328 (causing hurt by means of poison with intent to commit an offence) of IPC, under section 67A of IT Act (punishment for publishing or transmitting of material containing sexually explicit act) and Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration for an official act). The woman alleged in her complaint that around 11 months ago she was raped by Kumar when she had gone to his office in Outer Delhi’s Sultanpuri seeking help to obtain a ration card. She has alleged that Kumar had offered her a spiked drink and when she fell unconscious, she was taken to his house adjacent to the office and raped. The woman alleged that Kumar had told her that he will get a ration card for her and ensure jobs for her children. Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal sacked Kumar fom the AAP government on August 31, a day after the CD purportedly showing him in a compromising position with the woman surfaced. Police officials had said, the MLA from Sultanpur Majra had surrendered before the investigators at the office of DCP(Outer) in Pitampura where his statement was recorded. ]]>
