A big update is coming from sources in the Atul Rai rape case. Retired IPS officer Amitabh Thakur has been booked for abetment to suicide after a woman who had set herself ablaze near the Supreme Court complex a few days ago. The woman who blazed succumbed to burns at a hospital in Delhi.

The woman had lodged a rape case against jailed BSP MP Atul Rai on May 1, 2019. The Lanka police station in Varanasi had booked the retired IPS. The complainant and her companion had set themselves on fire outside the Supreme Court on August 16. The last leveled serious allegations against the police and other authorities, including SSP Amit Pathak, retired IG Amitabh Thakur, and a judge of conspiring against her. After the incident took place, it resulted in massive action and former Varanasi SSP Amit Pathak was attached to DGP headquarters by the state home department.

In the meanwhile, Atul Rai who had filed nomination as the BSP candidate from Ghosi parliamentary seat won the elections as an absconder. Later, he resigned before the court on June 22, 2019, and has been in jail since then. The police had filed a charge sheet against Rai and a hearing in the case was taking place at MP-MLA court at Prayagraj. Atul Rai's brother Pawan Kumar had lodged a complaint in November 2020 with the Cantonment police station of Varanasi. He accused the woman of having forged her date of birth in documents attached to her rape complaint.

The complainant had also filed one more case against the jailed MP and his companion Sudhir Singh with the Lanka police, accusing the two of defaming her through propaganda on social media.

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