Meru Senator Mithika Linturi has been released on a Ksh 500,000 bond or an alternative of Ksh 200, 000 cash bail after pleading not guilty to rape.
Mithika was arraigned in Court charged with attempted rape contrary to section 6 of the sexual offences act of 2006 as well as indecent act with an adult contrary to section 11 of the sexual offences act of 2006.
The matter is in relation to a 30th January incidence at Mayian hotel laikipia involving Beryl Akoth.
According to the charge sheet, Linturi indecently touched Ms Akoth without her consent.
Mithika denied the two counts of charges before Senior Principal Magistrate Martha Nazushi and the case will be mentioned on October 26.
His arraignment comes after he failed to stop his prosecution at the High Court last month.
Linturi was accused of sneaking into a couple’s room at the Maiyan Villa Resort in Nanyuki on January 29, 2021, while the man was away.
According to a police report, the woman said she retired to their room on the said day but did not lock the door because her spouse was still out.
At around 3 am, someone she thought to be her husband unlocked the door and got into bed with her.
She told the police that he started touching her inappropriately without saying a word. They later fell asleep.
About thirty minutes later she heard a knock at the door. It was her husband.
“30 minutes later while in romantic mood I heard a knock on the door and went to open the door only to find my husband standing at the door,” read the police report.
On switching on the lights, they discovered that there was a stranger in their bed prompting the husband to raise an alarm.
The couple’s friends who were also staying at the hotel identified the “stranger” as Senator Linturi.
It was also established that the lawmaker had booked a room adjacent to the couple’s. It was unclear if he had his villa confused with that of the couple.
The woman also claimed that Linturi tried to settle the matter by giving them Sh200,000 in cash and a Sh800,000 cheque.
