Lucknow: SAP leader and former Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prajapati spent a sleepless night in Lucknow district jail as he was arrested in Lucknow on Wednesday on charges of gang rape.
Jail authorities checked Prajapati’s barrack multiple times in the past 24 hours to convey a stern message that no special treatment would be given to him.
A jail guard said it was also done as initially, Prajapati showed arrogance when he was brought to jail on Wednesday afternoon.
Prajapati, who lost assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh from Amethi was arrested from Para area on Wednesday morning, nearly two weeks after he went missing.
In the FIR registered with Gautampalli police station on February 18, the 35-year-old woman from Chitrakoot accused Prajapati and six of his aides of raping her when she met them for a mining contract in 2013.
He is also accused of taking obscene photos of the woman and threatening her of making the pictures public and raping her for the past three years. However, Prajapati claimed it to be a conspiracy of the BJP in order to distract people’s attention from the assembly polls.