A court in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan Saturday remanded state BJP chief’s elder brother Ram Kumar Bindal in five-day police custody, a day after he was arrested for allegedly raping a 25-year-old woman. This came even as Mahila Congress demanded protection for the victim and Dr Rajeev Bindal’s resignation as state BJP chief. The BJP, on the other hand, said the case was politically motivated and hailed Ram Kumar as a “significant contributor to the establishment of Sanatan Dharma”

Ram Kumar, 81, an Ayurveda practitioner, is currently admitted to a government hospital where he was taken as he developed chest pain soon after he was arrested.

“We have secured five-day police custody of the accused. The court has allowed the police to question him in the presence of a doctor in the hospital. W

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