Madhya Pradesh: Congress MLA Umang Singhar booked for rape

Umang Singar, Congress MLA and former Madhya Pradesh minister Umang Singar has been booked for allegedly mentally harassing and raping a woman, the woman claims to be his wife, in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district.

The woman claims that Singhar has in the past sexually assaulted her without her will and under the guise of marriage. She also claims that the MLA has mentally tortured her. When the woman informed Singhar that she would file a case against him, according to the police FIR, he married her on April 16 in Bhopal.

Singhar’s behaviour changed after the wedding, and he began abusing her physically and mentally. After two months of marriage, the woman allegedly complained that Singhar had started to mistreat her, rape her, assault her, record an explicit video of her, and blackmail her.

The woman claimed in her lawsuit that he had unnatural sex in the past.

According to Aditya Pratap Singh, the superintendent of police in Dhar, a case against Singhar has been filed under Indian Penal Code Sections 498-A (domestic abuse), 377 (unnatural offences), 376 (2) (n) (rape), 323 (voluntarily causing harm), 294 (obscene conduct), and 506 (criminal conspiracy) (criminal intimidation).

The police officer stated that more investigation was being done on the situation.

The Gandhwani constituency is represented by Singhar, 48, in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly. During the administration of former Chief Minister Kamal Nath, he served as the state’s former forest minister.