Ranchi: The absconding BJP leader Seema Patra, wife of a retired IAS officer arrested on allegations for assaulted her domestic help.
According to police, Patra has been booked under the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Prevention of Atrocities Act.
The Ranchi Police had rescued the woman from Patra’s residence last week after receiving a tip-off from a government employee, sources said.
Patra had allegedly kept the woman captive in her residence in Ranchi’s posh Ashok Nagar area for several years. She was suspended by the BJP soon after the video of the woman went viral on social media.