Seema Patra, a suspended BJP leader, was detained in Jharkhand for ‘abusing’ a housekeeper
The BJP on Tuesday suspended Seema Patra, a member of the Jharkhand chapter’s national leadership. After a video of the domestic assistant, Sunita, recounting her horror went popular on social media, a FIR was filed against her.
After being charged with physically assaulting her domestic assistance, the Jharkhand BJP politician Seema Patra was taken into custody by the police on Wednesday, according to news source PTI.
On Tuesday, the BJP suspended Patra, a representative from Jharkhand on its national executive. She is married to a former IAS officer.
An FIR was filed against Patra at the Argora police station under the SC/ST Prevention of Atrocities Act and different sections of the IPC after a video of the domestic assistant Sunita recounting her horror went popular on social media.
Patra said that she had been wrongly accused of being involved in the case when speaking to media on Wednesday, according to ANI.
#WATCH | Ranchi, Jharkhand: "These are false allegations, politically motivated allegations. I have been implicated," says suspended BJP leader and wife of an ex-IAS officer, Seema Patra who has been accused of torturing her domestic help.
She has been arrested by the Police. pic.twitter.com/9PRSiBm0fO
— ANI (@ANI) August 31, 2022
Ramesh Bais, the governor of Jharkhand, criticised the police on Tuesday for their “inaction” and demanded that the DGP provide a report on the incident within two days. “Seema Patra, wife of a former IAS official, violently attacked her domestic help in Ashok Nagar in Ranchi and why the DGP has not proceeded against the accused,” said a news release from the Governor’s Office. It is a serious issue. A certain community forced 50 Dalits out of their houses in the Palamu district, which is under the jurisdiction of Pandu Police Station. It is alarming.
The complaint Vivek Anand Baskey, a government employee, allegedly received an SMS from Patra’s son Ayushman detailing the physical abuse being meted out to the housekeeper, according to the FIR in the case.
According to the FIR, Ayushman allegedly displayed photos of the domestic assistance who had bruises. When her kid began to protest about the physical abuse of the domestic help, Patra allegedly had him sent to a mental hospital. “The boy was transferred to a mental institution with the assistance of the police, where he yelled at his mother, “You made her (domestic help) drink her own pee!’ What type of a depraved individual you are,” it reads.
Patras hired the domestic assistance who came from Gumla about ten years ago.