The Bombay High Court on Monday said that it will not allow the withdrawal at this stage, of a petition filed by a woman, who had made rape allegations against Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, PTI reported. A division bench of Justices SS Shinde and Manish Pitale said it will hear the woman’s plea on February 18.
The woman had first approached a metropolitan magistrate’s court in Mumbai in 2013, alleging that Soren had raped her at a Mumbai hotel. However, she filed a withdrawal application against her allegations the same year, before a court in Bandra in Mumbai, according to PTI. The court had back then allowed the case to be withdrawn.
Then in August 2020, the woman approached the Bombay High Court, stating that she had met with an accident and that Soren might be behind it. She sought that a First Information Report be registered against Soren again in the alleged rape case, according to PTI.
On Monday, however, the woman’s lawyers once again submitted…