Shimla, Nov. 7 -- Days after a woman levelled allegations of harassment against BJP MLA from Churah, Hans Raj, on social media, Chamba police have registered an FIR against MLA's personal secretary Lekh Raj, and another individual Muniyaan Khan for allegedly threatening and coercing the victim to retract her earlier statements in a sexual harassment case she had filed against the legislator last year.

The action was taken following the complaint by woman's father. As per the complaint by the woman's father Taj Mohammad, the MLA and his aides allegedly abducted him and his daughter and took them to Shimla last year, where they were threatened and forced to record a new statement denying the earlier allegations. The father alleged that his...