Haryana BJP chief Mohan Lal Badoli, singer booked for alleged gangrape in Himachal Pradesh

The Himachal Pradesh Police has filed a first information report against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Haryana chief Mohan Lal Badoli and singer Rocky Mittal for the alleged gangrape of a woman from New Delhi, The Indian Express reported on Tuesday.

The two men were booked on December 13 after the woman filed a complaint with the police in Kasauli in Solan district, PTI reported.

Badoli denied the allegations and called them “baseless”, The Indian Express reported.

“There is nothing like that,” the newspaper quoted the BJP leader as saying. “I have no clue what it is all about. Such FIRs can also be fudged. It could be due to the upcoming elections in Delhi that such fake FIRs are being circulated.”

The woman alleged that the incident took place on July 3, 2023, at the Ros Common Hotel operated by the Himachal Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation at Monkey Point Road in Kasauli. She was visiting the state as a tourist along with her Delhi-based employer and a friend.

The woman claimed that she met two men along with her friend, according to The Indian Express. “One of them identified himself as Mohan Lal Badoli, a senior politician, while the other identified himself as Rocky Mittal alias Jai Bhagwan, a singer,” the FIR quoted her as saying.

The two men took the…

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