New Delhi: The CBI probe in the politically sensitive Unnao gang-rape case has corroborated the survivor’s charge that BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar raped her at his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Makhi village June 4 last, while his female accomplice, Shashi Singh, stood guard outside the room.
Sources said while the survivor had consistently named Sengar, MLA from Bangarmau, UP, among those who violated her, local police kept the MLA and some other accused out of the FIR filed June 20 and the charge-sheet filed later.
The central agency has recorded the survivor’s statement before a magistrate under CrPC Section 164, in which she “stood by” the allegations. Statements recorded under CrPC Section 164 are admissible in court as evidence. The police, a CBI officer said, also delayed the girl’s medical examination and didn’t send the vaginal swab or her clothes to the forensic laboratory. “This was all deliberate and in connivance with the accused,” he added.
Sengar, Shashi Singh and the other accused, who were arrested by the CBI April 13-14, were questioned at length and the agency is tying up the loose ends related to the police’s involvement in saving the MLA. The UP government had handed the case over to the CBI following uproar over the alleged effort by the Unnao police to save the BJP MLA.
Describing the sequence of events in 2017, as established by the CBI based on the survivor’s statement and independent investigation, an agency source said, The girl was raped June 4 by the MLA after she was brought to his house by Shashi Singh on the pretext of providing her a job.
Unnao rape case: Sengar BJP MLA main culprit: CBI
