Samajwadi Party leader booked

Kannauj: A Samajwadi Party leader has been booked for sexually exploiting a woman and blackmailing her.

"Aafaq Khan is married with eight children but since 2014, he has been sexually exploiting me and threatens to malign my reputation.

He holds me captive and mentally tortures me. He has also been threatening to defame me on the social media.

"I am now seriously ill and want to be freed from his clutches. Aafaq Khan carries a firearm and threatens to kill me if I offer any resistance," the 36-year-old complainant has said in the FIR.

Meanwhile, a school teacher of an eminent Sainik School in Rajasthan''s Jhunjhunu district, who was arrested for sodomising 12 students, was produced in court on Thursday and sent to a 15-day judicial custody.

Ravindra Singh Shekhawat, a resident of Bikaner, was arrested on Tuesday after a complaint was filed by the school principal against him for sodomising students for the last six months.