Rape accused NCP MLA sent to 3-day police custody

Nationalist Congress Party member of Legislative Assembly Dilip Wagh and his personal assistant Mahesh Mali, arrested on charges of rape, were on Sunday remanded in police custody till March 3 by a local court.

Wagh and Mali alias Bunty were produced before the magistrate's court this afternoon amid tight security and judge A S Nalge sent them to police custody.

While Wagh, representing Pachora in neighbouring Jalgaon district, was arrested on Saturday from Mumbai, Mali was held by the Nashik police on Sunday.

A 20-year-old girl from Pathardi, Ahmednagar district, had alleged that Wagh and Mali called her to Nashik, promising to give her a job, and raped her on February 21 at the government guesthouse in Nashik.

She lodged the FIR on February 25, following which, the NCP suspended Wagh.