New Delhi: Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has landed in yet another trouble after the City police on Sunday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against the leader after a witness in a money laundering case being probed by the Enforcement Directorate lodged a complaint accusing him of insulting the modesty of woman and claimed she was threatened. The complaint has been lodged at Vakola police station by the witness, Swapna Patkar, according to the police official, reported PTI.
Patkar had recently approached the police over a rape and murder threat received in a typed paper, inserted in a newspaper, and delivered to her on July 15, said the police official. In fact, an audio clip in which a male voice can be heard threatening a woman using foul language had gone viral, according to the PTI report.
On Saturday, a non-cognisable (NC) case was registered under section 507 (Criminal intimidation by anonymous communication) of the Indian Penal Code, which was later converted into an FIR on Sunday, the official noted.
In this regard, the police have invoked sections 504 (insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506 (Punishment for criminal intimidation), and 509 (intending to insult the modesty of a woman) if the IPC against Raut.
Patkar on Sunday registered her statement with the police, the official said in presence of security as requested by her. Meanwhile, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Monday arrested Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut in a money laundering case linked to alleged irregularities in the redevelopment of a Mumbai 'chawl'.
The Shiv Sena MP was arrested after the central agency questioned him for over six hours at its zonal office in south Mumbai's Ballard Estate. He was taken into custody at 12:05 am on Monday under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) as he was not cooperating in the probe, news agency PTI reported officials as saying.
The Rajya Sabha MP will be produced before a special PMLA court in Mumbai later in the day, where the Enforcement Directorate will seek his custody.