Unnao (Uttar Pradesh) [India], May 11 (NT): The Unnao gang-rape survivor and her kins on Friday demanded the death penalty for accused Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) allegedly confirmed his role with 13 others in the crime.

The survivor said, "I demand the death penalty for Sengar for raping me and for the murder of my father, “as quoted by ANI.

The survivor’s uncle said, "We demand protection for our family so that we can give our statement before the court fearlessly. We demand death penalty for Kuldeep Sengar."

As per sources the CBI has already recorded the victim's statement before a magistrate under Section 164 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC ), in which she repeated that Sengar raped her at his home in Uttar Pradesh's Makhi village on June 4 last year.

On May 8, BJP MLA Sengar, who was the main accused in the Unnao rape case, was shifted from the Unnao Jail to Sitapur Jail after a petition was filed in the Allahabad High Court by the victim's family.