Lucknow, Jan. 31 -- Congress Member of Parliament Rakesh Rathore was arrested by the Sitapur police on Thursday in a rape case.
The Congress leader was taken in custody in the middle of a press conference and was taken by the police under heavy police security to the court after he surrendered.
A woman had filed a complaint against Rathore, accusing him of raping her on January 15. In her complaint, the woman alleged that the Congress MP raped her multiple times in a span of four years, promising to push her political career and marry her. The woman also submitted to the police all her call details and call recordings with the MP.
The police arrested Rathore a day after his anticipatory bail plea was rejected by the Lucknow bench of the ...