Mritunjay alias Babloo Yadav, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for raping the wife of an IAS officer in Bihar, has moved the Supreme Court, seeking re-investigation and re-trial.Babloo, in his petition, has alleged that he and his mother Hemlata Yadav — a former RJD MLA — were implicated to save an influential RJD leader against whom the officer’s wife, Champa Biswas, levelled rape charge.The Champa Biswas rape case hit headlines in 1998 when the victim approached the NHRC, seeking a CBI probe into the incident and protection to her family, including husband B B Biswas, a Bihar-cadre IAS officer.She also named Mritunjay and Hemlata in the petition. Hemlata, who headed the state women’s welfare board, had taken her to the RJD leader, she had alleged. During trial, Biswas had told the court that the leader was among those who raped her between 1995 and 1997.Accusing the prosecution of suppressing material facts and documents, he has said this was a case “which requires detailed CBI inquiry and de-novo trial in the interest of justice”.Babloo and his mother were convicted on February 26, 2002. His appeal against the conviction is pending before the Patna High Court.
