New Delhi: A Delhi court Tuesday issued a slew of directions under the witness protection guidelines for arranging accommodation for the 2017 Unnao rape survivor and her family in Delhi after the Uttar Pradesh government said they wanted to reside in the national capital apprehending threat in their home state.
District Judge Dharmesh Sharma directed that the rape survivor, who is likely to be discharged Wednesday from AIIMS, and her family members – mother, two sisters and one brother – be temporarily accommodated in the hostel of the Jay Prakash Narayan Trauma Centre, AIIMS, for the next seven days, a lawyer privy to the proceedings said.
The woman is admitted in AIIMS following an accident July 28 and the family is under the CRPF security as per the Supreme Court’s order.
The rape survivor’s mother had a discussion with the judge about their relocation arrangements and said that they be allowed to live in the national capital as they apprehend threat to their life and liberty in case they go back to reside at their native village in Unnao district, the lawyer said after in-camera proceedings.
The report was filed as per the court’s earlier directions to the UP government to appraise it about the possible measures that could be taken for relocating the woman and her family to a safe place. The court has put up the matter for further hearing on September 28.
The woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by expelled BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar in Unnao in 2017, when she was a minor. The court has framed charges against Sengar and co-accused Shashi Singh in the case.
PTI
