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By Saraswat Kashyap: A local court in Bengaluru on Friday dismissed the bail petition of Indian Youth Congress (IYC) President Srinivas BV seeking a transit bail. The youth Congress leader was accused of harassment and gender discrimination by Angkita Dutta, a former youth Congress leader from Assam.
Judge KS Jyothishree heard the plea on Thursday and announced the order on Friday.
Srinivas moved the Additional City Civil and Sessions Court in Bengaluru after the Gauhati High Court refused to grant him interim relief in his plea seeking to quash the FIR lodged against him by Angkita Dutta. He was charged under Section 438 of the CrPC.
Investigation officer (IO) Maitrayee Deka said, “Srinivas BV had applied for bail in the Karnataka High Court, and we have objected against his bail petition in the honourable court. The magistrate had called on the case diary and the judge had seen the diary. After which his petition got rejected.”
When asked if Srinivas BV has absconded, Maitrayee Deka said, “I am the investigative officer and I am the one who is officially responsible to tell whether he is absconding or not.”
“I have not placed any such order. We have put up a notice at his home in Karnataka, and we have given him sufficient time. If he doesn’t appear before or on May 2, then only we can declare him as absconding,” added the investigation officer.
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The Assam Police has served a notice to Srinivas BV to appear at the Dispur police station in Guwahati on May 2.
Angkita Dutta was expelled from the Congress‘s primary membership for six years for alleged ‘anti-party activities’ in the wake of her claims against Srinivas. She filed an FIR against Srinivas BV on April 19 at the Dispur police station.
According to the FIR, Angkita said that Srinivas had been harassing and torturing her for the last six months by making sexist comments and using slang words. She also stated in her complaint that he was threatening her with dire consequences if she complained about him to the senior party office bearers.
She also alleged that Srinivas heckled her and threatened to ruin her political career during the party’s plenary session at Chhattisgarh’s Raipur in February.
A few Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders from Assam, including Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and state Finance Minister has slammed the Congress party for expelling Dutta, stating that the manner in which she was sacked is uninspiring for women.
Angkita Dutta is the daughter of the then Assam minister Anjan Dutta during the Tarun Gogoi-led Assam government. Angkita had contested the Assam Assembly election on a Congress ticket from Amguri constituency.
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