Sexual assault allegation against Vinod Arya: Staff member’s video goes viral

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Days after former Uttarakhand minister and expelled from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Vinod Arya, was charged with attempted sexual assault and murder of his employee in Haridwar, a video from the minister’s house went viral on social media.

In the video, the staff member can be seen bleeding from his left wrist while Arya can be seen putting a bandage on it.

The staff member, who brought the assault allegation against Arya, visited him at his home on December 2. According to the staff member, 25, Arya threatened to kill him and attacked him with a sharp object. After the complaint, an investigation into the case was opened by Jawalpur Police.

Also read: Day after day, staff member retracts allegation against ex-Uttarakhand minister

Jwalapur Police Station RK Saklani said: “We have included the video in the investigation.

However, upon reviewing footage from the CCTV camera installed at Aryas, we learned that the Complainant had cut his wrist contrary to the allegations made in the First Information Report (FIR) that Arya allegedly cut his wrist. attacked with a sharp object. We’ll get to the bottom of the matter, Saklani said.

In the video, a woman can also be heard accusing the staff member of blackmailing Arya by cutting her wrist.

A police officer who did not wish to be named told HT on Thursday that the complainant had given a contradictory statement to the magistrate on Wednesday.

The statement of the plaintiffs was registered before the magistrate on Wednesday under Article 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) of 1973 in which he recanted the charges he had made in the initial FIR registered at the post of Jwalapur police against the minister on Tuesday.

Chief Superintendent of Police, Haridwar, Ajai Singh said the statement of the complainants before the magistrate was included in the investigation.

Following the complaint, the Arya was summoned to Jwalapur police station on Wednesday and questioned for several hours, another officer said.

The alleged incident took place on November 20, following which a complaint was registered at Jwalapur Police Station on December 2.

Despite repeated attempts, the complainant could not be contacted for his remarks.

Arya was expelled from the BJP in September this year after his son Pulkit Arya, along with two other people, were arrested in connection with the murder of a 19-year-old woman, who worked as a receptionist at their compound in Rishikesh.

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