Minister, 2 MLAs sought sex for granting favours: HC

Yaseen, states the HC order, sought a similar favour from another girl who wanted him to get her husband, a militant, released from jail. “Six days after the incident, my husband was released from Kot Bhalwal jail,” the girl is learnt to have said in her statement. She is also learnt to have said that she “can identify the residence as well as the room” where the minister had intercourse with her.

The order states that PDP MLA and former MoS Ghulam Hassan Khan is learnt “to have been indulging in illicit sex”. In her statement recorded on May 31, 2006, Sabeena, kingpin of the racket, said: “He also wanted a girl from me. I contacted a police constable, who is a resident of Usmana Coloney and who is presently working in security. I took her along with me to the Circuit House near Radio Kashmir where Ghulam Hassan Khan was staying. It was evening. He took the both of us to a room in the Circuit House. I was made to sit in the bathroom while he had intercourse with the constable in the room. He paid her Rs 1,000 and gave me Rs 200.”

The court said the allegations against Congress MLA and former Sports Minister Yogesh Sawhney were quite serious. Sawhney is learnt to have “outraged the modesty and molested” Sabeena on different occasions. However, Sabeena has declined to give a written complaint against him. “Around 8.40 pm, the minister came there and took me to a room on the first floor, where he had some wine and then raped me,” Sabeena said in her statement recorded on June 4, 2006 in the presence of District Judge Molvi Javed. “He tore my clothes. He did not give me any appointment order, did not pay me but promised to marry me.”