Court frames charges against Sengar
New Delhi: As a Delhi court on Friday framed charges of rape and kidnapping against Bangermau MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar, the recently expelled BJP leader from Uttar Pradesh is staring at the prospect of at least 37 years to life in prison in just one of the five Unnao cases he is in the dock for.
Principal Sessions Judge Dharmesh Sharma framed charges under sections 120b (criminal conspiracy), 363 (kidnapping), 366 (kidnapping with intent to force illicit intercourse), 109 (abetment), 376 (1) (rape) of the IPC and under sections 3 and 4 of the POCSO Act in the Unnao rape case, where the then 17-year-old victim was allegedly raped by Sengar at his Unnao home in 2017.
The Tis Hazari court here also framed charges of kidnapping against Sengar's co-accused Shashi Singh.
According to the rape victim's sworn statement to the CBI, Singh had taken her to meet Sengar at his home in Unnao through the back door, after which Sengar himself dragged her into his room and allegedly raped her.
In fact, according to the central probe agency's investigation, the victim and her family "went running from post to pillar" to get an FIR registered against the UP legislator, but no police station agreed to file the case under Sengar's influence.
Nothing happened until the victim tried to immolate herself outside the UP CM's office on April 7, 2018, days after Sengar's brother and his henchmen had brutally beaten up her father in public.
The CBI's probe had revealed that local thana officials and supervisory police officers in UP Police had shown a "lackadaisical approach" in the way they handled the rape victim's complaints. The probe agency continues to pursue this line of investigation.
The victim's father, was at the time trying to get an FIR registered for the gang-rape of his daughter, just weeks after Sengar had raped her at his Unnao home.
Eventually, the UP Police had booked the victim's father in a false case of possessing an illegal country-made pistol and arrested him. He was beaten to death in custody.
While the CBI continues its investigation into the rape victim's recent accident that left her in a critical condition, the Delhi court will be hearing the four other related cases.
