Rape accused Sandeep Kumar uncooperative in investigation: Police sources

NEW DELHI: Sacked Delhi Minister and AAP MLA Sandeep Kumar, who was arrested on charges of rape on a complaint of a woman, is not co-operating in investigation with the police, sources said on Monday. Kumar, 36, was produced before a magisterial court in Rohini on Sunday, which sent him to police custody till today on a Delhi Police plea for remand to quiz him in the case. According to sources, Police said that Kumar is not cooperating and not replying to their questions properly.  Hence, the Police will ask the court to increase the tenure of Kumar's custody to get more details pertaining to the case. The former minister was arrested on Saturday night after a woman approached Sultanpuri police station in north Delhi with a complaint of sexual harassment against the former social welfare and women and child development minister following which a case was filed. The police have booked him 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). In her complaint, the woman alleged 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 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 also ensure jobs for her children. Kumar was removed from the AAP government on August 31 by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal after the CD purportedly showing him in a compromising position with the woman surfaced. The MLA from Sultanpur Majra had surrendered before the investigators at the office of DCP (Outer) in Pitampura where his statement was recorded, police officials had said. Soon after the controversy, the MLA had defended himself, saying he has been targeted. Kumar's wife has also come out in support of her husband, claiming that he was "falsely implicated" in the scandal. (With inputs from PTI)