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Woman Who Accused Rajasthan Minister’s Son of Rape Attacked With Ink in Delhi

After the woman made the accusation last month, the police attempted to arrest Rohit Joshi – the son of Mahesh Joshi, Rajasthan’s minister for public health. Later, he was granted anticipatory bail.

New Delhi: A 23-year-old woman who accused the son of a Rajasthan minister part of the Congress-led state government of raping her multiple times was attacked with ink while walking on a road in South Delhi on Saturday, June 11, according to a report by NDTV.

The woman was reportedly walking down Kalindi Kunj road in Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh with her mother when two men accosted them and threw a “blue liquid” at the alleged survivor. 

Police officials told the news outlet that the woman was taken to the trauma centre of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) thereafter and that a case has been registered and an investigation launched into the matter.

According to a report by the Indian Express, the case has been registered under Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 323 (causing hurt), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 195A (threatening person to give false evidence).

The woman had reportedly filed a complaint in May against Rohit Joshi – the son of Mahesh Joshi, Rajasthan’s minister for public health – in which she alleged that he had raped and sexually assaulted her on several occasions in 2021.

In the first information report (FIR) registered in the matter last month, she had claimed that Rohit said no one could harm him because he was the son of a minister and that “people won’t even know where I (the accuser) have disappeared”.

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After the FIR was registered, a team of 15-20 police personnel went to Joshi’s residence in Jaipur to arrest the accused but had found the house demolished. Thereafter, the police visit another residence of the accused in Delhi’s Civil Lines, but the accused was absconding.

The police had told the newspaper that Rohit’s family had been intimated about the case and had asked them to inform the police of his whereabouts. 

Rohit had also applied for anticipatory bail which was granted on Friday, June 10 by a Tis Hazari court in Delhi. In its order, the court directed the accused to approach the investigating officer and that after his arrest, he would be released after furnishing a Rs 5 lakh bail bond. The court also directed Rohit not to leave Delhi without its permission.

The accused counsel, Deepak Chauhan, had also submitted photographs and transcripts to the court to argue that the relationship between the accused and the accuser was consensual.

Further, the court granted permission to the IO to move the court and cancel the accused’s bail if need be.

Swati Maliwal, chairperson of the Delhi Commission for Women, posted about the incident on Twitter on June 12, tagging Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot and telling him to arrest the minister’s son instead of saving him.

Further, Maliwal said that she would be sending notice to the Delhi police in the matter. A copy of the same was shared on Twitter thereafter.