An FIR has been lodged against the BJP block president of Manatu Satender Yadav on charges of his making sexual assault on a girl.
The FIR was lodged on April 15. The accused BJP block president has gone into hiding. Police are making raids and searches to fish him out.
Officer in charge of the Manatu police station Nirmal Oraon said the victim girl has given her complaint in writing against Satender Yadav.
She has just named him and no other else. The victim girl is also a Yadav, added the police officer. About the age of the victim girl, the police officer said "There is no aadhar card of the victim girl nor has she any certificate of birth."
She has just maintained herself to be 14 years old only. Police have invoked sections of the IPC and pocso act too, added the police officer Nirmal Oraon.
Palamu district president of the BJP Amit Tiwary has meanwhile stripped Satender Yadav of his post of the Manatu block president with immediate effect till he comes out clean of the serious allegation.
Manatu block comes under the Chatra lok sabha constituency where the voting is due on May 20.
The BJP here is in thick mess in the wake of this incident where its block president is facing sexual assault charges and voting is just few weeks ahead only .
