Indian politician in ‘sex video’ row resigns

A senior spokesman of India’s ruling Congress party resigned on Monday after a controversial tape allegedly featuring him having sex was leaked on the Internet. Lawmaker Abhishek Manu Singhvi said in a statement he was also quitting as head of a Parliamentary Committee on Law and Justice.

India’s Parliament has been gridlocked by a series of graft scandals embroiling the Congress-led government, and the video allegedly showed Singhvi having sex with a female colleague in his legal chambers. AFP