West Bengal: Police summon BJP leader in a 2-year-old complaint

KOLKATA: Behala police have issued summons to a senior BJP leader to appear before them for questioning in a rape complaint lodged on August 31, 2018.
In the complaint, a woman, who said she was a BJP worker, had levelled charges against an RSS leader directly, and two others who are both senior BJP leaders.
Police arrested the principal accused from New Delhi in September 2018.They said a part-chargesheet was later filed against this leader.
On October 1, 2018, the Calcutta High Court granted anticipatory bail to the two senior BJP leaders. The HC had in that order said: “The petitioners in the two matters are associates of the principal accused. In the light of the complaint and the limited extent of these petitioners’ involvement in such matter, there may not be any ground to take them into custody for their interrogation.” The HC, however, asked both leaders to report to the investigating officer (IO) when called.
In an email on Friday, police sent a notice under CrPC Section 41(A) asking the senior BJP leader to “appear in person” before IO at Behala police station within a week.
DCP (Behala) Nilanjan Biswas said: “We want to complete the probe and we have sent the notice as per law.”
Bengal BJP general secretary Sayantan Basu refused comment. “I am not aware of the present developments in the case. This is an old case. I will not like to comment on it,” he said.