Marathi writer charged with rape of three Dalit women, absconds
Tuesday March 26, 2013 11:02:15 PM,
IANS
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Satara (Maharashtra): A manhunt has been launched to trace leading Marathi writer Laxman Mane, who has been booked for raping three Dalit women
working at a school he runs, police said here Tuesday. Mane's
family meanwhile dismissed the charges.
"He is still absconding and police teams are investigating the
matter," an official from Satara police control told IANS.
A former Maharashtra legislative council member, the 63-year old
Mane has been charged with raping three women who were working as
temporary cooks at a residential tribal school he runs at
Jakatwadi in Satara, around 250 kms to the south-east of Mumbai.
According to police, the complaints were lodged Monday night by
the trio - married and aged between 30-35 - alleging Mane raped
them under the lure of making them permanent employees of the
school.
The victims - all aged between 30 and 35 - have claimed that he
raped them between 2003 and 2010 in the school premises, at his
home in Satara and at a guest house in Pune.
After registering offences under Indian Penal Code Sec. 376
(rape), police teams have visited Mane's home and other known
places frequented by him, but so far he remains untraceable, the
official said.
Meanwhile, Mane's family has stoutly denied the allegations
against Mane and claimed that he is being framed in the false case
case to malign his reputation.
Mane was conferred the prestigious Sahitya Akademi Award in 1981
and Padma Shri in 2009, besides several other awards and honours
during his writing career.
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