NEW DELHI: The CBI investigation in the politically sensitive and much heated Unnao gang-raped case has confirmed the victim’s charge that BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar raped her at his home in Uttar Pradesh’s Makhi village on June 4 last year. His female collaborator, Shashi Singh made guard stand outside the room.
According to Sources the victim had consistently named Sengar, who is MLA from Bangarmau, UP, among those who assaulted her, local police held the MLA and some other accused out of the FIR lodged on June 20 as well as the chargesheet filed later.
The probe agency has recorded the victim’s statement before a magistrate under CrPC Section 164, in which she “stood by” the accusations. Statements recorded under CrPC Section 164 are permissible in court as evidence.
A CBI officer stated that The local police also delayed the girl’s medical examination and didn’t send the vaginal swab or her dress to the forensic laboratory adding “This was all deliberate and in connivance with the accused persons,” .
Sengar, Shashi Singh and the other accused, who were detained by the CBI on April 13-14, were inquiring at length and the agency is tying up the loose ends related to the police’s participation in saving the MLA.