'Conspiracy to trap me': BJP MLA from MP alleges rivals 'sending women to frame him in rape cases'

BJP MLA from Pichhore in Shivpuri district, Pritam Lodhi, has levelled serious allegations against his political rivals, claiming that they are trying to frame him in a rape case by sending women to him.BJP MLA from Pichhore in Shivpuri district, Pritam Lodhi, has levelled serious allegations against his political rivals, claiming that they are trying to frame him in a rape case by sending women to him.Lodhi said, “The conspiracy works in a pattern. First, women are made to pick an argument with him. Then, the conversation or the dispute is recorded on a mobile phone. The same video is used against him to get a case registered under Section 376.”Also Read | BJP issues show-cause notice to Madhya Pradesh MLA for threatening officerArgument recorded on phone is a pattern: LodhiLodhi alleged that his rivals do not come to him directly, but instead send women to the Dak Bungalow in Pichhore. He claimed that these women are instigated to argue with him or to say such things that provoke a reaction from him, so that later the same conversation can be used against him.According to the MLA, a man often stands nearby with a mobile phone along with such women. He alleged that the man records the entire conversation or dispute.Also Read | ‘If your daddy has guts…’: BJP MLA Pritam Lodhi's dare to Karera cop after son’s Thar crash in MPSuspicious of a conspiracy: LodhiHe said that the behaviour of some women who come to him makes him suspicious of a conspiracy.He claimed that women are being sent with the intention of misleading him and trapping him and later levelling false allegations of rape to get a case registered under Section 376.Pritam Lodhi also alleged that his opponents are trying to frame his son also by adopting the same strategy. “I advised my son to remain vigilant in such matters. A woman who had come to the Dak Bungalow had herself allegedly informed him about this conspiracy,” he added.