IANS
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 23:23 IST
PATNA: A police officer has accused Bihar Congress legislator Sunita Devi of forcing him to have sex with her for two years. The legislator has denied the charge by her former bodyguard.
Bal Yogeshwar Sharma has lodged a complaint at the Kotwali police station here, charging her with sexual exploitation. He alleged that Sunita Devi began exploiting him from 2006, a police official said.
The legislator forced him to sleep with her, he said. This, he alleged, continued for some two years, causing him mental and physical torture. He said she threatened to have him sacked if he did not cooperate. “I have evidence such as photos and letters written by her,” Sharma, now posted in Patna, told a television channel.
Sunita Devi, who is in her 40s, refuted Sharma’s allegations. “There is no truth in them,” she said, adding that the policeman was trying to blackmail her.
She is the Congress legislator from Korha assembly seat in Katihar district, about 180 km from here.
NOTE FROM SAVING MEN'S SPACES: Most of the reporting of this news by the heterosexualised press of India has been diminutive of the Policeman's version. It is presented just as an accusation. While, had it been the case of a woman accusing a man, the headlines would have screamed, "woman sexually exploited by minister (man)".
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