Obscene Messages Sent To Pragya Thakur, Two Unidentified Persons Booked

Obscene messages were allegedly sent to the Member of the Parliament and Bharatiya Janata Party member Pragya Singh Thakur recently. The police have charged two unidentified people for sending her obscene messages and videos. Thakur is MP from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.

The news media reported that Thakur filed the complaint after she received a video call from an unidentified number. The girl in the video call allegedly started disrobing. The Inspector Chain Singh Raghuvanshi said that Thakur disconnected the call. "...later she received an obscene video and message from a different number and also a message threatening to defame her by circulating the video on social media," informed Raghuvanshi.

The investigating police said that a case against the accused persons has been registered under sections 354, which deals with sexual harassment; 507, which deals with criminal intimidation by an anonymous communication and 509, which deals with the word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman, of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

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Reportedly, the call and the videos were part of a conspiracy to defame her and spoil her image. The police have said that the matter is under investigation and they are trying to identify the accused persons.

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The case was registered by Thakur in TT Nagar police station in Bhopal, the capital of Madhya Pradesh. She also gave the numbers via which she was getting the messages and the video call to the investigating officer.

Who Is Pragya Singh Thakur?

In 2019, Thakur was nominated for the Lok Sabha elections from Bhopal by BJP. She is also the main accused of the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast that killed six persons and injured 101 people. She was also nominated to the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Minister of Defence.

She also goes by the name Sadhvi Pragya. In the past, she had called the assassin of Mahatma Gandhi, Nathuram Godse as a patriot. Most of her comments were even condemned by her own political party, BJP.