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The allegations were found to be fabricated due to a complaint filed earlier by Ansari that led to the demolition of the complainant’s home. Ansari plans to seek compensation for his demolished house. BHOPAL: A court in Madhya Pradesh's Rajgarh district has acquitted a former ward councillor of rape charges after finding that the complainant made the allegations because his complaint had led to the demolition of her home.
Although Shafiq Ansari has now been proven innocent, he no longer has a house of his own. His home was bulldozed by the administration less than 10 days after the woman filed the complaint in March 2021. "I had built the house on 4,000 square feet of land with my hard-earned savings.
Now, there's only rubble. We are staying in my brother's house," Ansari, 58, told TOI . 'House bulldozed within 10 days of filing of rape complaint' Shafiq Ansari is a former corporator of Sarangpur civic body, around 130km from Bhopal.
"We had all the papers. It was alleged that the house was built without permission, but we were not provided any chance to show records or say anything. It was simply torn down.
I have a family of seven. They all suffered. I went to jail for three months," Ansari said.
The woman filed the rape complaint against Ansari on March 4, 2021. His house was bulldozed on March 13, 2021. "They came at 7am.
The administration arrived with bulldozers, and before my family members could understand anything, my house was in ruins. I was absconding at that time. I surrendered the next day," he said.
As per the woman's complaint, Ansari called her to his house on Feb 4, 2021, on the pretext of offering help for her son's marriage but raped her. The verdict came on Feb 14 this year. First additional sessions judge of Rajgarh district, Chitrendra Singh Solanki, noted "significant inconsistencies" in the testimonies of the woman and her husband.
The court observed that although there is a police station close to her house, which was demolished, she did not report the alleged rape immediately. For 15 days after the wedding of her son, she neither informed her husband or any of her sons about the incident, and no reason was given for this delay, the court noted. No human sperm was found on samples of the complainant, the order said, concluding that rape could not be confirmed from clinical and scientific evidence.
The sessions court acquitted Ansari, observing that it was on the complaint of Ansari and other locals that the complainant's house was demolished by the civic body. It is apparent that the woman filed the complaint of rape against him because her house was demolished on the basis of his complaint, it said. Ansari plans to move court for justice for the demolition of his house.
"We moved an application for compensation earlier, but to no avail. Now that truth has prevailed, I am in talks with my lawyers. We will move a fresh application for compensation," he said.
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