Mahato widow booked for abusing Jamshedpur SDO

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Manoj Prasad Posted: May 10, 2008 at 2356 hrs IST

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Ranchi, May 9 : The controversy regarding memorial of slain JMM MP Sunil Mahato turned ugly on Friday when his wife Suman Mahato, also a JMM MP, violated Section 144 of the CrPC in her bid to install his statue and abused Jamshedpur SDO Ranjan Choudhary, threatening to implicate him in a rape case in case he tried to remove it. All this happened in full public view and was recorded and broadcast by private television channels.

“If you dare to touch the statue, I will lodge a case of rape against you,” Mahato threatened Choudhary. The SDO, who was accompanied by police, preferred not to react. The police have lodged an FIR charging Suman Mahato with abusing a public servant and violating prohibitory order.

BJP leader and former CM Arjun Munda, who saw her abusing the SDO on TV channels, said, “She is an MP and yet she doesn’t know how to behave with a public servant. She must apologise.”

When asked, Mahato refused to comment. “I will reply on Saturday,” she said.

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After Sunil Mahato was gunned down in February last year, his wife succeeded him as Jamshedpur MP. Soon, she came up with a plan to build a memorial for her husband on a five-acre land belonging to Tata Steel. On this ground, the Bal Ganapati Vilas and Oriya Samaj have been organising Ganapati and Durga pujas since 1919. After she mobilised JMM workers and raised a platform on this ground, without taking permission from the Tata Steel, these two organisations, led by BJP MLA Sarayu Rai, raised objections. Rai led a series of agitations prompting the district administration to clamp Section 144 of the CrPC on November 18.

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