March 26 . Indian police have arrested a politician of the hindu extremist organization, Baratiya Janata Party (BJP) in the northwestern province of Punjab for a second Friztl-like incest crime discovered in one week in the country, in which the man allegedly raped his 20-year-old daughter in the past eight years, said police Thursday. Ashok Taneja, the general secretary of a local unit of the BJP in Punjab, where the BJP is a partner in the state’s Akali Dal-ledruling alliance, was arrested after his daughter filed a charge against him Wednesday.
The girl, who is a college student, told police that she mustered enough courage to charge his father for sexual abuse after seeing a similar case in Mumbai, where a businessman was arrested for raping his daughter last week.
The Superintendent of Police of Amritsar, the state capital of Punjab, Satpal Joshi, told the media a case of rape has been registered against the accused.
Taneja had threatened to kill her daughter if she told anyone about the sexual abuse, he said, adding investigate is going on about whether any one of the girl’s family members, including her mother, knew about the rape.
Last week, Mumbai police arrested a 49-year-old businessman who allegedly raped his daughter for nine years on the advice of a yoga master that he could get rich quickly by having sexual relations with his daughter.
Mumbai based automobile businessman, Kishor Chavan ‘raped’ his own teenage daughter for 9 years, purportedly on the advice of his ‘tantrik’ who made him to believe that he would become rich. Joining in his henious crime was his wife, who was a silent spectator and an accomplice to the dastardly action of her 60 years old husband. She covered up the act of this incest father for so long iin order that he becomes rich. Not only that the father and mother duo even allowed the ‘tantrik’ to rape their another teenage daughter. The story telecast last night came as a shocker to the nation. The police have arrested the incest father, his accomplice the mother, and the ‘tantrik’.
Hansmukh Bhai Rathode, 54, a practitioner of the ancient Indian art of the occult, second left, and an Indian businessman who has been allegedly raping his daughter for more than eight years, second right, are escorted by police officers at a court in Mumbai, India, Thursday, March 19, 2009. The 49-year-old businessman began raping his oldest daughter in 2000, when she was 14, after he ran into financial troubles, apparently on the advice of Rathode who said it would make him wealthy, police said Thursday. The parents have not been identified to protect the identities of their children. (AP Photo/Pramod Dethe)
Both cases are similar to that of Joseph Fritzl in Austria, who got life sentence recently for imprisoning, raping and forcing his daughter to give birth to six children for him.
