Waseem Rizvi, the former chief of Uttar Pradesh’s Shia Waqf Board, has reportedly been accused of rape and blackmail by his driver’s wife. The woman on Tuesday filed a complaint against him at Saadatganj police station. Rizvi has denied the charges against him.
As per reports, the woman in her complaint alleged Rizvi, for the past five years, had been sexually assaulting her and threatening to release obscene photos of her if she complained. She told the press he used to send her husband out on the pretext of work to rape her.
After she raised the issue with her husband, he approached Rizvi in the matter and was allegedly thrashed and intimidated, an IANS report says.
