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MP BJP leader arrested for raping, threatening Assam woman
The Statesman Siliguri
|June 03, 2025
A BJP leader has been arrested from Jabalpur city in Madhya Pradesh after a woman from Assam accused him of repeated rape and forcing her into prostitution besides physically assaulting and threatening her, for over a year in a hotel run by him, police said on Monday.
The accused, Atul Chaurasia, is the former Jabalpur Mandal president of the ruling saffron party in the state. His accomplice and co-accused Mathura Prasad Dubey alias Sheetal is still at large and police have launched a search to nab him too.
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