Acche din: Jaipur court serves notice to Union Minister in rape case

Nihalchand Meghwal, the lone cabinet minister from Rajasthan, was served a notice along with 17 others by the Jaipur district court in relation to a 4-year-old rape case.

 As per the reports, in 2011, a woman had filed an FIR against her husband and his friends of sexually exploiting her.

In her police grievance, she had alleged that her husband drugged her after which she was raped by his friends including Union Chemicals and Fertilizers Minister Nihalchand.

The closer report was filed in 2012 as charges were not proved, but afterward the woman appealed in the district court. On Thursday, the court served notices to minister Nihalchand and 17 others in the case and have asked them to reply by August 20, 2014. 43-year-old Nihalchand is a four-time MP from the Ganganagar seat of Rajasthan.

He is the son of Begaram Chauhan, an MLA from Raisinghnagar assembly constituency. During Lok Sabha elections 2014, Nihalchand had beaten Congress candidate Bhanwarlal Meghwal.

Now, it will be interesting to see what action Prime Minister Narendra Modi is going to take against Nihalchand, who began his political career in 1995, if he is proven culpable in the case.