Shimla, Jan. 9 -- A court in Himachal Pradesh's Solan district on Thursday accepted the closure report filed by Kasauli police in an alleged gang rape case against Haryana BJP chief Mohan Lal Badoli and singer Jai Bhagwan, alias Rocky Mittal, citing lack of evidence and giving the accused a clean chit.

The case was registered in December 2024 in Kasauli after a 28-year-old woman had alleged that the two men raped her in Kasauli in July 2023. However, the woman failed to appear before the court, and the court on Thursday accepted the police closure report, giving Badoli and Mittal a clean chit. The police had filed the closure report after failing to gather sufficient evidence in the case.

The woman had claimed that Badoli and Mittal for...