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<\/div>\nUmang Singhar denied the charges and claimed his wife had been blackmailing him. (File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Madhya Pradesh Congress MLA Umang Singhar, a former state minister, has been charged for rape and domestic violence, based on a complaint by his wife. However, the Congress leader, also charged for unnatural sex and criminal intimidation in his native Dhar district, said he has been framed.<\/p>\n
His wife also accused him of owning assets in the name of their house help’s husband. She alleged his involvement in the suicide of his live-in partner Sonia Bhardwaj, for which the MLA was charged in Bhopal a year ago.<\/p>\n
The MLA denied the charges and claimed that his wife had been blackmailing him.<\/p>\n
“On November 2, I filed a police complaint against her for mentally harassing and blackmailing me. She threatened to frame me in a false case and demanded Rs 10 crore. A case has been lodged,” he said.<\/p>\n
State Home Minister Narottam Mishra said the MLA has had “other wives” in the past.<\/p>\n
“Former minister Umang Singhar’s wife has accused him of rape on the pretext of marriage and mental harassment. He had other wives in the past, according to the police. A case has been registered at Naugon police station,” he said.<\/p>\n
Singhar, a powerful tribal politician and a three-time MLA, is the nephew of former Chief Minister Jamuna Devi. He was the forest minister in the previous Kamal Nath government and currently represents the Gandhwani seat.<\/p>\n
In an internal feud in the Congress in 2019, the politician had accused party veteran Digvijaya Singh of running the government as a shadow Chief Minister.<\/p>\n
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