Gayatri Prajapati, the Uttar Pradesh minister accused of raping a woman and attempting to rape her minor daughter, was arrested on Wednesday morning in state capital Lucknow. He has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days. Mr Prajapati had been absconding for over two weeks; he went missing in the middle of campaigning for the UP assembly election after the Supreme Court ordered the state police to file a case against him on the allegation of a woman that the minister had, along with six other men, gang-raped her and attempted to rape her 16-year-old daughter in October.
